super saturday

I'd heard about the Super Saturday theme events at the Air and Space Museum a couple times, but was scared away thinking it might be crowded or for older kids.  Turns out despite a pretty busy parking lot, it didn't seem crowded inside at all.  The place is so huge that everyone spreads out.  The event itself was awesome.  They had fun activity and experiment stations.  One highlight was the rat weight which showed how they measure weight without gravity.  Another fun one was creating your own robotic hand - it was two stacked cups with three looped strings that twisted around the object.  Playing on the foam space shuttle and wearing the space suit were really neat.  The Astronaut D on T homas was there to talk about his missions - one that happened to have all Ohioans with a fun story about how woodpeckers delayed it.  He even had a little test for kids to come up and try to poke into an foam square that was supposed to imitate the layer of insulation the pecker managed to poke through and make 205 holes!  It was a fun story of problem solving for the NASA team trying to launch safely and protect the wildlife.  We will definitely be back for more of these events!