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Machines and Missions · Free
How launch vehicles are designed, tested, reused, and how they survive coming home.
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Space and Earth · Free
How storms on the Sun travel to Earth, why our planet's magnetic field protects us, and what happens when space …
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Humans in Space · Free
What weightlessness does to bone, muscle and mind, and how astronauts stay well.
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Start Here · Free
How we got from a beeping metal sphere to people living in orbit, and why it matters down here.
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Space and Society · Free
Nobody owns space: so who makes the rules, who gives permission to launch, who pays when something goes wrong, and …
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Partner Courses · Free
A free three-lesson introduction to model rocketry with Estes Industries: the safety code that makes the hobby safe, the parts …
With Estes Industries
3 lessons · +150 XP
View Course →Youth Wellbeing · Free
Naming feelings, understanding they are normal and that they pass.
4 lessons · +160 XP
View Course →Humans in Space · Free
Why eating in orbit is hard, and how crews are learning to grow their own.
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Start Here · Free
The real physics of getting off the ground, no maths degree required. Three short lessons, a balloon experiment, and a …
3 lessons · +150 XP
View Course →Go Deeper · Free
Stop describing orbits and start calculating them: orbital velocity, the rocket equation, delta-v budgets and the physics of getting home.
4 lessons · +250 XP
View Course →Machines and Missions · Free
How satellites stay up, what they can see when they look back, and the ordinary parts of your day they …
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Space and Earth · Free
Why a fleck of paint can crack a spacecraft window, how we keep track of the junk in orbit, and …
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Space and Society · Free
How the space industry really earns its money, why launch prices decide what gets built, and what keeps a space …
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Partner Courses · Free
A free three-lesson course with Club for the Future on the many jobs that build the future in space, and …
3 lessons · +140 XP
View Course →Start Here · Free
Meet our cosmic neighbourhood, from the Sun to the icy edge.
3 lessons · +150 XP
View Course →Space and Society · Free
What a space system is really made of, why the part sitting on the ground usually needs the most protecting, …
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Go Deeper · Free
Actually size a life support system: what a crew costs per day, what closing the water and oxygen loops buys, …
4 lessons · +250 XP
View Course →Humans in Space · Free
Air, water, radiation and the human side of building a home somewhere with no atmosphere.
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Machines and Missions · Free
How machines explore the places people cannot reach yet, how a rover thinks for itself, and why we clean spacecraft …
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Youth Wellbeing · Free
That worth is not earned by performance, achievement, or by what you give to others.
4 lessons · +160 XP
View Course →Space and Earth · Free
Using what is already out there, and the honest argument about who it belongs to.
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Start Here · Free
How we measure places we can never visit, and why looking out is looking back in time.
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Youth Wellbeing · Free
That you are allowed to have limits, and how to hold them kindly.
4 lessons · +160 XP
View Course →Space and Earth · Free
Three lessons on what life needs, where in the solar system and beyond it might survive, and how scientists would …
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Machines and Missions · Free
Meet the room full of ordinary people who actually run a space mission, from telemetry and go/no-go polls to the …
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Go Deeper · Free
Stop admiring satellite pictures and start measuring with them: what each band sees, NDVI worked by hand, the resolution trade-off, …
4 lessons · +250 XP
View Course →Humans in Space · Free
A one-person spacecraft: pressure, heat, and why the gloves are the hardest part.
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Space and Society · Free
The commercial era, and the many real jobs in this industry that are not astronaut.
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Youth Wellbeing · Free
For the young person who is told they do not belong.
4 lessons · +160 XP
View Course →Machines and Missions · Free
How satellites, atomic clocks and a bit of relativity work together to tell your phone where it is, and why …
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Humans in Space · Free
Take weight away and physics you thought was fixed starts behaving differently. Three lessons on what that lets people build …
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Start Here · Free
How people all over the world read the same sky, for direction, for seasons, and for traditions that are still …
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Start Here · Free
Indigenous peoples across North America hold detailed, still-living star knowledge: this course is about what it is for, why some …
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Youth Wellbeing · Free
Simple, evidence-based tools for a nervous system under load.
4 lessons · +160 XP
View Course →Machines and Missions · Free
Radio, giant dishes and the delay you cannot argue with. How we hear from Mars.
3 lessons · +100 XP
View Course →Youth Wellbeing · Free
Normalising help-seeking, and teaching exactly how and who to ask.
4 lessons · +160 XP
View Course →Machines and Missions · Free
If people are flying to 25 km under a balloon, why not build an airship that goes the same height …
7 lessons · +260 XP
View Course →Youth Wellbeing · Free
Comparison, cyberbullying, and how online spaces amplify insecurity.
4 lessons · +160 XP
View Course →Machines and Missions · Free
The International Space Station is the largest thing people have ever built off the Earth, and it flies through the …
7 lessons · +280 XP
View Course →Partner Courses · Free
What astronauts really eat, why hot sauce is the most fought-over thing on the Station, and how dehydrated food is …
3 lessons · +150 XP
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