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Engineer It! - An Imagination Playground

July 2, 2015



Welcome to the Virginia Air & Space Center

Imaginations will soar at this hands-on, minds-on science center that features interactive exhibits, a five-story-high IMAX Theater and Cool Science every day! 

Explore 100 years of flight with more than 30 aircraft, take the yoke at a number of flight simulators, and see awe-inspiring space-flight artifacts. Be amazed by the Apollo 12 Command Module and NASA's new Orion space craft. Investigate science, technology, engineering and math through Cool Science and changing exhibits. Watch a movie or be part of one in the state-of-the-art Riverside 3D IMAX Theater!

The Virginia & Space Center is located at 600 Settlers Landing Rd, Hampton, VA 23669. Click here for directions.


Engineer It! - An Imagination Playground is an innovative, child-friendly, playground equipment system that encourages learning, social development, movement, and above all fun! VASC’s new exhibit for young children helps to inspire young builders in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) while allowing them to be creative and imaginative. The exhibit features larger-than-life blocks for giant-scale building and table top blocks for smaller hands. The exhibit also features a digital component where children can build using a special app.