The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) invites your entire community—children, adults, families, and teachers—on a Voyage that will forever change your perspective of home. Be a part of the national Voyage Program—become a Voyage Community—and receive a remarkable model of the Solar System along with extensive community-wide resources.

The Program began in October 2001 with permanent installation of the Voyage scale model of the Solar System on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Stretching from the National Air and Space Museum to the Smithsonian Castle, the exhibition was undertaken in partnership with the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, Smithsonian Institution and NASA.

Also developed were exhibition tours, grade K-13 lessons, educator workshops, grade K-20 classroom programs, and public and family events, all of which use the power of models to understand our world. The exhibition, in combination with these educational resources, provides a remarkable breadth of experiences in science education for diverse audiences across an entire community.

Now your community can have it all!

Imagine a version of the National Mall exhibition, customized for your community, placed outside your museum, in your park, downtown, or on a university campus, and training for your community’s educators on lessons meant to be used before and after a tour through the Solar System. Engage your school district, science center/museum, university, and civic organizations in a community-wide celebration of what we know about our place in space…and that we can know it.

The navigation column on the left accesses all the pages that address the details of the exhibition, the larger Voyage program, and how your community can take a Voyage of their own. The Voyage in DC link in the horizontal navigation bar at the top of the page is a good place to start your exploration of this web site. It provides the story behind the program—the vision, the message, the history, the depth of commitment to science education, and an overview of the team.