NASA's latest launch isn't a rocket or satellite. Instead, the space agency brings a website to your home to keep children engaged in technological know-how all through a time when most colleges are close nationwide.
The new program, known as NASA At Home, is packed full of activities for children and families. The exercises include e-books, virtual exercises, and an opportunity to be a scientist in your very own home. For kids (or adults) who wonder what it would want to pilot a NASA aircraft, there's an app in the virtual excursions and AR phase that lets in them to do just that.
We heard your requests for more things to do with #NASAatHome. You asked for activities for students, do-it-yourself projects, virtual tours of the solar system and more amazing space images. Now they’re all in one place! https://t.co/YwGypKc1PM pic.twitter.com/2iVqlfRAbl — NASA (@NASA) March 27, 2020
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Bettina Inclán, the associate administrator for NASA's Office of Communications, said the space agency knows people are looking for ways to get out of the house without leaving their home.
"NASA has a way for them to look to the skies and see themselves in space with their feet planted safely on the ground, but their imaginations are free to explore everywhere we go," Inclán told Penn Live.
Hence, Inclán said the space agency had placed the idea at the people's fingertips. "We hope everyone takes a few moments to explore NASA at Home," she added.
The space agency may even run NASA at Home-themed programming 10:00 am to 4:00 pm weekdays with astronaut Christina Koch reading a children's book on Instagram live.
Broadcasting around-the-clock will include "recent mission activities, and news, conversations with astronauts at the International Space Station, educational seems at science, generation and exploration topics, and historic packages from the corporation's storied past," says the press release.
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Activities for all
NASA has geared the program's educational and entertaining resources and sports to families and college students in kindergarten and up. Here are the following activities:
Elementary school
With thread and a domestic printer, you may make a reproduction of the Apollo capsule that landed at the moon. It's a kite, too!
No printer? No problem. Use household gadgets like a juice box, sponge, or rice krispies treat to build your personal spacecraft.
There are instructions for balloon-powered rockets and stretchy universe slime, too.
Middle and high school
There's emoji space math for middle and high schoolers. Figuring the calculations would help improve the fundamentals of spaceflight.
There is an available cardboard rover for the Amazon Prime members. If completed, users will understand the hovercraft basics and different projects made by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
For all ages
Don't forget to track the International Space Station. Hint, it is the third brightest object inside the sky.
Watch NASA TV for its upcoming launch events and other announcements, too. The space agency has also provided an interactive tool to learn about planets in the solar system.
One can also decorate his or her own home with Mars explorer posters and other futuristic posters.
Apply for a new job? You have until Mar. 31 to apply for NASA's next class of astronauts. Not quite qualified? NASA has internships, too.
