"The Museum is dedicated to the preservation of the history of women in aviation and space and the documentation of their continuing contributions today and in the future."

Welcome to the online home of the International Women's Air & Space Museum. Located at Burke Lakefront Airport, in Cleveland Ohio, the museum is a repository of information about women in aviation and space. Selected information from our collections is available on this website. You will also find items from our Gift and Book store, and information about our many events held throughout the year. Take some time to browse our website, and while you're here, why don't you join us?

Joan L. Hrubec Aviation Education Center Open During Winter Break!

Enjoy hands-on aviation activities, including Career in Aviation Lockers, Aviation Touch Wall, Time Machine to the Wrights and More Monday through Friday, December 20-December 31! Two daily crafts, one at 11 am and 1 at 1 pm. Admission to the education center is free. Crafts are $1 per child.

Christmas Break Week 1 Craft Schedule

• Monday- Whirly Gigs and Paper Airplanes: Learn how planes are able to stay in the air. Make your own flyer to experiment with and compete against your friends and family to see which flyer flies the farthest, straightest, and longest.
• Tuesday- Alien Paratrooper: Learn about parachutes and how they keep skydivers from falling to their death. Make your own to paratrooper to take home. 
• Wednesday- Alien Spawn: Learn about cartesian divers and buyouncy. Make a cartesian diver that looks like a baby alien in pod. Supplies are limited, advanced registration is required.  
• Thursday- Lunar Landscapes: Ever wonder why the moon has a face? Learn how the moon was formed and why it has so many craters. Make your own lunar landscape to take home. 
• Friday- Planet Power: Ever wonder how much you would weigh on Jupiter? Ever wonder what the atmosphere is like on the Moon? Come to IWASM and find the answers to these questions and more and make your own planet with colored sand and planet shaped bottles.

Christmas Break Week 2

• Monday- Wind Power: Learn about wind and how it effects the temperature outside. Make your own windmill to take home!
• Tuesday- Rocket Power: Learn about propulsion and how rockets are used to get astronauts into space. Make your own rocket to launched outside the museum (weather permitting-while supplies last)
• Wednesday- Planet Power: Ever wonder why planets are different colors? Come to IWASM and learn what makes Mars red and Uranus blue. Create your own planet and make it any color you want!
• Thursday- Star Power: Learn about stars and contellations. Make your own star gazer to take home.
• Friday- Pilot Power: Learn about Amelia Earhart and other famous female aviators. Create your own flight goggles to wear and take home!

 Breaking Space News ...

Here's a photo of NASA astronaut Cady Coleman taken before she launched on Dec. 16 (Kazakhstan time) (Dec. 15 US EST) on a Russian Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station where she will be a flight engineer for Expeditions 26 and 27. Coleman, who turned 50 the day before she launched, will be spending about five months at the station. She flew two prior space shuttle missions--STS-73 in 1995 and STS-93 in 1999. Coleman, who is part of the museum's 100 Ohio Women in Air & Space Exhibit, worked for several years at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH while she was on active duty with the U.S. Air Force before her selection as an astronaut in 1992.  Photo Courtesy of NASA

Now open ... A new special exhibit at the International Women's Air & Space Museum celebrating the achievements of Ohio women in air and space!  The exhibit is scheduled to run until January 2, 2011. For more information about the exhibit, click here!

Attention Ohio Libraries...A traveling version of 100 Ohio Women in Air & Space is available at no cost to you.  For more information, click here!

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You can follow women astronauts both current and former on Twitter at these twitter names:

@Astro_Nicole   (Nicole Stott STS-128, Exp. 20/21)

@Astro_Cady  (Cady Coleman STS-73, 93)

@Astro_Sandy (Sandy Magnus STS-112, 126, Exp. 18)

@AstroKDS (Kathy Sullivan STS-41G, 31, 45)

@MsCoolAstro (Soyeon Yi Soyuz TMA-12)

@EDyson (Esther Dyson Soyuz TMA-14 back-up only—did not fly in space)

@Astro_Naoko (Naoko Yamazaki - scheduled to launch on STS-131, March 2010)

Follow NASA’s other astronauts on twitter at:

      @NASA_Astronauts

New!  Adopt an Exhibit at IWASM!  Learn more.nus

IWASM is on YouTube!  Be sure to check out our videos on YouTube.  Get a quick history lesson on Harriet Quimby, Clara Livingston and Ruth Nichols.  More profiles of great women aviators are being added so check back.  Click to get to YouTube

Attention Girl Scouts!  The International Women's Air & Space Museum can help you earn your Aerospace badge!  Learn more.

Now Available!! Are you a woman involved in any aspect of aviation? Submit your biography to us. The form can be retrieved here. (PDF file) Just fill it out and mail, fax, (216-623-1113) or email us and we'll add your information to our research center.

IWASM Press Room - Click Here!

  IWASM is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture

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