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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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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
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
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Like a decoder wheel for the Moon, this calendar will show you where and when to see the Moon and every moon phase throughout the year!

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Make a Moon Phases Calendar and Calculator

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Make a Moon Phases Calendar and Calculator

Like a decoder wheel for the Moon, this calendar will show you where and when to see the Moon and every moon phase throughout the year!
TAGS:Earth Earth's Moon Missions Moon Supermoon Lunar Eclipse Moon Calendar Moon Phases Apollo en Español video tutorial Moons Sun
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Design and build a lander that will protect two "astronauts" when they touch down.

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Make an Astronaut Lander

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Make an Astronaut Lander

Design and build a lander that will protect two "astronauts" when they touch down.
TAGS:Earth's Moon Living in Space Lander Design Project DIY Engineering Building The Engineering Design Process Moon 2024 Apollo #VirtualMoonshot May the Fourth en Español video tutorial space travel Mars Missions Spacecraft
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Modify a paper-cup spacecraft so it can zip down a line and drop a "lander" onto a target.

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Land a Spacecraft on Target

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Land a Spacecraft on Target

Modify a paper-cup spacecraft so it can zip down a line and drop a "lander" onto a target.
TAGS:Artemis Cassini Rosetta Lander Landing May the Fourth en Español video tutorial space travel Asteroids Comets Earth's Moon Mars Missions Small Bodies Spacecraft
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Create a paper rocket that can be launched from a soda straw – then, modify the design to make the rocket fly farther!

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Make a Straw Rocket

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Make a Straw Rocket

Create a paper rocket that can be launched from a soda straw – then, modify the design to make the rocket fly farther!
TAGS:Earth's Moon Mars Missions Rocket Rockets Design Flight Project DIY Engineering Building The Engineering Design Process Moon 2024 Apollo #VirtualMoonshot May the Fourth en Español video tutorial space travel Spacecraft
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Make craters like the ones you can see on the Moon using simple baking ingredients!

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Make a Moon Crater

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Make a Moon Crater

Make craters like the ones you can see on the Moon using simple baking ingredients!
TAGS:Asteroids Earth's Moon Moon Crater Asteroid DIY Space Learning Space Asteroid Flyby Supermoon May the Fourth en Español video tutorial Small Bodies
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Are you a space poet, and you didn't even know it? Find out how to create your own poems inspired by space!

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Write a Poem About Space

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Write a Poem About Space

Are you a space poet, and you didn't even know it? Find out how to create your own poems inspired by space!
TAGS:Asteroids Comets Dwarf Planets Earth Earth's Moon Exoplanets Jupiter Mars Mercury Missions Moons Neptune Pluto Poetry Poems Writing Planets Stars Solar System Space Art Creative Arts Rovers Saturn Small Bodies Spacecraft Sun Universe Uranus Venus