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Launch rockets, build robots, explore your world and beyond! Our projects, toolkit and contests will take you into space without ever leaving Earth.

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Build a rubber-band-powered rover that can scramble across a room.

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Make a Cardboard Rover

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Make a Cardboard Rover

Build a rubber-band-powered rover that can scramble across a room.
TAGS:Design Flight Project DIY Engineering Building The Engineering Design Process Moon 2024 Apollo #VirtualMoonshot May the Fourth en Español space travel Earth's Moon Mars Missions Rovers Spacecraft
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Build a paper helicopter, then see if you can improve the design like NASA engineers did when making the first helicopter for Mars.

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Make a Paper Mars Helicopter

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Make a Paper Mars Helicopter

Build a paper helicopter, then see if you can improve the design like NASA engineers did when making the first helicopter for Mars.
TAGS:Mars Missions Perseverance Helicopter Aircraft May the Fourth en Español video tutorial space travel Rovers Spacecraft
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Learn how to describe rock samples like a NASA scientist. Then, take a quiz to see if you can match edible rocks made of candy bars – and real rocks from Earth and space – to the correct description.

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Describe Rocks Like a NASA Scientist

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Describe Rocks Like a NASA Scientist

Learn how to describe rock samples like a NASA scientist. Then, take a quiz to see if you can match edible rocks made of candy bars – and real rocks from Earth and space – to the correct description.
TAGS:Asteroids Comets Earth Earth's Moon Mars Meteorite Meteors Geology Rocks Minerals Quiz Halloween Moons Rovers
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Use spaghetti to build a tower modeled after the giant structures NASA uses to talk to spacecraft.

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Building With Spaghetti

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Building With Spaghetti

Use spaghetti to build a tower modeled after the giant structures NASA uses to talk to spacecraft.
TAGS:engineering design process building with pasta Deep Space Network
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Turn a piece of paper into a glider inspired by a NASA design.

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Make a Paper Glider

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Make a Paper Glider

Turn a piece of paper into a glider inspired by a NASA design.
TAGS:Airplane Plane Flight Lift Aircraft Glider
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Use geometric shapes called tangrams to build a rocket and other space-themed designs!

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Build a Rocket and More With Shapes

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Build a Rocket and More With Shapes

Use geometric shapes called tangrams to build a rocket and other space-themed designs!
TAGS:rockets tangrams geometry shapes space travel Spacecraft
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Learn the difference between land ice and sea ice, then do an experiment to see how the melting of each contributes to global sea level rise.

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How Melting Ice Causes Sea Level Rise

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How Melting Ice Causes Sea Level Rise

Learn the difference between land ice and sea ice, then do an experiment to see how the melting of each contributes to global sea level rise.
TAGS:Climate Change Earth Sea-Level Oceans Sea-Level Rise Graphing Earth Science Water Weather and Climate Energy Earth Day en Español video tutorial
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Make a volcano with baking soda, vinegar and play dough. Then, add multiple layers that you can investigate like a NASA scientist.

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Make a Volcano

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Make a Volcano

Make a volcano with baking soda, vinegar and play dough. Then, add multiple layers that you can investigate like a NASA scientist.
TAGS:Earth Geology Volcano Lava DIY Learning Space Earth Day en Español video tutorial Mars Rovers
Create a Moon Journal

Draw what you see in a Moon Journal and see if you can predict the moon phase that comes next.

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Look at the Moon! Journaling Project

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Look at the Moon! Journaling Project

Draw what you see in a Moon Journal and see if you can predict the moon phase that comes next.
TAGS:Earth Earth's Moon Moon Supermoon Moon Calendar journal observation Moon Phases en Español video tutorial Moons Sun