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36 Days of Summer: Sleep over at Udvar-Hazy or see Ira Glass at Wolf Trap

Take the kids to Chantilly’s Udvar-Hazy Center for the popular Smithsonian Sleepovers or see NPR’s Ira Glass at Wolf Trap.

By Editorial August 20, 2016 at 8:00 am

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Ira Glass / Photo courtesy of Wolf Trap

Sleep over at Udvar-Hazy.
For little pilots-in-training, this is a sleepover parents should OK. For the first time ever the Smithsonian is opening up Chantilly’s Udvar-Hazy Center for the popular Smithsonian Sleepovers. Sleepover guests (including a required chaperone) will experience the museum through an interactive exploration of exhibit halls consisting of games, puzzles and challenges; exhibit-based craft projects; an IMAX film; sleeping next to aviation and space artifacts (Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, Concorde and space shuttle Discovery); and maybe even spotting an alien or two.

No kids? Then …

See Ira Glass at Wolf Trap
If you listen to NPR, you are familiar with the voice of Ira Glass. The host and producer of the popular (over 2.2 million listeners) This American Life program is coming to Wolf Trap to discuss Seven Things I’ve Learned. Hear about his success as he went from an intern to the godfather of the podcast.

(August 2016 36 Days of Summer)

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