Air and Space Flight

Look! Up in the sky! It's MIT, offering demonstrations and hands-on activities relating to man-made things that fly, float, and orbit. See the TALARIS Hopper, a robotic planetary explorer designed to traverse the moon's terrain. You can also tour a wind tunnel, make water bottle rockets, watch radio-controlled aircraft swoop and soar, and much more.

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• Scheduled Activities
• All Day Activities

11:00am - 2:00pm	Aircraft carrier deck operations — action planner demo
11:00am - 12:00pm	Radio control aircraft flying and demonstration
11:00am - 2:00pm	Computers that fly robots!
11:00am - 1:00pm	Rhode Island Army National Guard ROTC UH-60 Blackhawk fly-in
11:00am - 12:30pm	Ion rocket motor firing
11:00am - 12:00pm	Flying parrot, unmanned aerial vehicles
11:00am - 1:00pm	Army National Guard and MIT ROTC UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter fly-in
11:00am - 3:30pm	Fly a SPHERES satellite
11:30am - 12:00pm	Gas Turbine Laboratory open house and tours
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Blimp Competition hosted by AeroAstro Professor and former astronaut Jeff Hoffman
12:00pm - 4:00pm	Student clubs & teams open house
1:00pm - 4:00pm	Fly robotic helicopters at the Aerospace Controls Lab!
1:00pm - 1:30pm	Meet MIT authors! Book signing with David Mindell, author of "Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight"
1:00pm - 3:00pm	Tackling real-world challenges: ESD PhD poster session
1:30pm - 2:00pm	Gas Turbine Laboratory open house and tours
2:00pm - 3:00pm	Women in engineering: coffee and dessert
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Gas Turbine Laboratory open house and tours
2:30pm - 4:00pm	Display and flight demo: TALARIS planetary exploration hopper
2:45pm - 4:00pm	Gender, race, and the complexities of science and technology

11:00am - 4:00pm	Aeronautics and astronautics Newman Hangar displays
11:00am - 4:00pm	Aviation and the environment
11:00am - 4:00pm	Build a paper mini helicopter or a straw rocket
11:00am - 4:00pm	Carbon nanotube display
11:00am - 4:00pm	Celebrating discovery at MIT: an undergraduate research poster session
11:00am - 4:00pm	Design-build-fly exhibit
11:00am - 4:00pm	Exploring with the lunar reconnaissance orbiter
11:00am - 4:00pm	Eye in the sky
11:00am - 4:00pm	Meet spacesuit-testing robot, land on the moon, and more in the Man-Vehicle Lab demos
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT Museum inside out
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT OpenCourseWare: unlocking knowledge and empowering minds
11:00am - 4:00pm	MIT150 welcome lounge
11:00am - 4:00pm	Mobile advanced command and control system display
11:00am - 4:00pm	Paper airplane competition
11:00am - 4:00pm	Personal tracking made easy
11:00am - 4:00pm	Space Propulsion Laboratory poster session
11:00am - 4:00pm	Take your photo as an astronaut on the moon
11:00am - 4:00pm	TALARIS and Exoplanet Sat: how do Draper and MIT engineers get a spacecraft to hop or look at stars in space to discover planets?
11:00am - 4:00pm	Technology through time: 150 years of MIT history at the MIT Libraries' Maihaugen Gallery
11:00am - 4:00pm	The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) – MIT lead mission to the moon
11:00am - 4:00pm	Timeline of MIT engineering
11:00am - 4:00pm	Transition: the flying car (or drivable airplane)
11:00am - 4:00pm	Water bottle rocket launch
11:00am - 4:00pm	What is the Engineering Systems Division (ESD)?
11:00am - 4:00pm	Wind tunnel tour and demo
11:00am - 4:00pm	Zero robotics competition