The Micronaut Mission takes place in the International Space Station training room. Scientists, engineers and mathematicians will be engaged in a variety of hands on experiments as they simulate travling 230 miles above the Earth’s surface.
Includes Micronaut Mission and one Micronaut EVA of your choice.
Maximum is 40 participants —Divided into 2 groups up to 20 students each.
Includes Micronaut Mission, and two Micronaut EVAs of your choice.
Maximum is 60 participants —Divided into 3 groups up to 20 students each.
Includes Micronaut Mission, and three Micronaut EVAs of your choice.
Maximum is 80 participants —Divided into 4 groups up to 20 students each.
Students learn about a space shuttle launch - from liftoff, to docking with the International Space Station, to landing.
Students work in pairs to put shuttle launch sequence cards in order based on what they learned.
Students will create a paper model of a shuttle.
If time allows, students will learn about an astronaut's daily routine in space.
Students will learn about the uses of Nanosatellites in space.
Students will work in pairs to build a Nanosatellite with Geofix pieces.
If time allows, students will investigate different components of the day and night sky.
Students will learn how rockets take astronauts to the Moon and back - from liftoff to landing.
Students will work in pairs to put sequence cards in order based on what they learned.
Students will count and identify different shapes and use those tangram shapes to construct a paper rocket.
Students will learn important facts and characteristics of the planets in our Solar System.
Students will learn the relative size and distance of the planets.
Students will learn and practice putting the planets in order from the Sun.
Students will learn important facts and characteristics of stars.
Students will learn important facts about constellations.
Students will create their own constellation.
Students will explore the concepts of reflection and refraction and discuss their differences.
Students will learn the different parts of a telescope.
Students will use a refracting telescope to observe distant objects.
Students will investigate the sun, earth, moon and their interactions with each other.
Students will learn the four main moon phases and will model and discuss each phase.
Students will build and launch a MicroRocket.
Students will organizer launch results using a bar graph.
Students will read and interpret the results using a bar graph.