Many watch the solar eclipse from Chantilly’s Udvar-Hazy Center
CHANTILLY, Va. (DC News Now) — On Monday, dozens of people, including many families, spent the afternoon at the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly watching the partial solar eclipse.
The Center, which is the companion facility to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., hosted a watch party for those to watch the phenomenon.
As part of DC News Now’s special coverage of the eclipse, Northern Virginia Reporter Max Marcilla spent the day speaking with youngsters at the watch party, where they told him they were excited to witness the rare occurrence.
Luke Blair, 10, came from Louisa County with his uncle and great-grandmother to watch the eclipse, which he said he’ll remember for the rest of his life. He hopes to work for NASA in the future.
“I’m very excited,” he said. “I just love space. Everything about it.”
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12-year-old Blaine Holder, his 15-year-old sister Giselle, and their parents came to Chantilly from Haymarket for a glimpse at the eclipse. Blaine also wants to be a scientist in the future and brought his own homemade sun spotter, which he made with a cereal box.
9-year-old twins Roya and Nicholai and their father Reza are Americans living in Switzerland who shared their excitement that the eclipse overlapped with their holiday back in the U.S.
“I’m really happy that I saw it,” Roya said.
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