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NASA TechRise Student Challenge

NASA high altitude science balloonNASA’s TechRise Student Challenge invites U.S. students in grades 6 to 12 to submit ideas for experiments to be launched on high-altitude research balloons. Some 60 winning teams will receive $1,500 to build their experiments plus an assigned berth for their payloads on a NASA balloon flight.

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Solar Sails: The Future of Space Travel

LightSail solar sail spacecraftTeams of students in grades 7 to 9 follow the engineering design process to create, construct, test, and improve model solar sails made of aluminum foil to move cardboard tube satellites through “space” on a string. During the process, they learn about Newton’s laws of motion and the transfer of energy from wave energy to mechanical energy. 

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NASA Hits Big with Asteroid Defense

NASA DART asteroid impactTalk about “high impact” engineering! On September 26, NASA intentionally crashed a small spacecraft into an asteroid, providing the world’s first full-scale demonstration of planetary defense missions to deflect potential near-Earth hazards.

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Back to the Future: Asteroid Mining

UCF and Honeybee Robotics asteroid minerA prototype asteroid explorer developed by University of Central Florida engineers and Honeybee Robotics mines water from the asteroid’s soil for propulsion.

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World Space Week 2022

world space week logoCelebrate the contributions of science and engineering on World Space Week October 4 to 10 with hands-on classroom activities and global events!

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Astronauts A to Z!

Astronauts Zoom! cover imageHow do astronauts live and work in space? Award-winning children’s science writer Deborah Lee Rose tackles these and other questions in a new picture book, Astronauts Zoom! Maryland fourth grader Maya Miller, an aspiring astronaut and engineer, has our exclusive eGFI review!

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Moonstruck

Moon rising over Earth from space NASAA White House directive has NASA recalculating the route toward human exploration of the solar system, starting with returning humans to the Moon.

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NASA Apollo Art Contest

Apollo 17 astronaut on moonTo celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo mission to the moon, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center is hosting an art contest for preK-12 students. Register by June 1 and submit artwork by June 15, 2019. Winning artwork will be displayed at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center.

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Beeline for Mars

InSight landerNASA’s latest Mars lander, which executed a perfect touchdown November 25 after a six-month journey of 91 million miles, is unlike previous robotic explorers. The InSight rover is larded with sensitive instruments designed to dig deep below the surface and investigate the Red Planet’s core, crust, and seismic activity.

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