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Museum’s Education Program Alumni Now Includes an Astronaut

In September NASA selected Pacific Northwest native Lauren Edgar to join the 2025 astronaut candidate class. The 40-year-old Edgar grew up in a small town about 20 miles from The Museum of Flight in Seattle. “I think that my experience at the Museum turned my childhood passion for space exploration into a realistic career path,” said Edgar when she was a Mars Rover driver for NASA ten years ago. Now Edgar joins a growing list of aerospace professionals who earlier found inspiration, knowledge and even scholarships as young students enrolled in education programs at The Museum of Flight.

Native American Experience Honored in Live Performances Nov. 6

Seattle, Oct. 28, 2025--With free performances on Nov. 6 at 5:30 and 7 p.m. the performance group Living Voices honors the Native experience from...

Nov. 1 Program Looks at the Second Lives of Military Aircraft

SEATTLE, Oct. 23, 2025—On Nov. 1, Museum of Flight docent and pilot Marva Semet will show how military aircraft sometimes assume entirely...

The Museum of Flight Becomes The Museum of Fright

SEATTLE, Oct. 21, 2025—On Sunday Oct. 26 the spirits of Halloween and Dia de Muertos merge, and The Museum of Flight becomes The Museum of...

21+ Event on Oct. 17 is a Dare to Fly the Haunted Skies

SEATTLE, Oct. 9, 2025—On the night of Oct. 17 the Museum’s darkest galleries in the Personal Courage Wing open to Haunted Skies, a 21+...

Oct. 1 Book Talk Takes on Musk v Bezos Rivalries in the New Space Race

SEATTLE, Sept. 10, 2025—On Oct. 1 the Museum presents a provocative book talk with award-winning Washington Post space reporter Christian...

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