Anytime Expeditions

Learn about how astronauts experience quarantine and isolation during long term space travel and ways that NASA mitigates the associated biological and psychological impacts.  

Using the astronaut hygiene and personal preference kits as models make your own personal preference kit.

*Can be done in the classroom or at home

Examine what quarantine, isolation, and protests around Apollo 11 looked like using artifacts in the Museum's collection. Make connections to today.

Participate in the COVID-19 from Space virtual breakout room to first learn more about satellites and what their images can tell us, and then answer three questions using satellite images from the dashboard to study night lights, water quality, and air quality.  

Explore the relationship between an airplane's center of gravity and flight stability and how control surfaces affect how an aircraft flies.

Explore aircraft in the Museum's collection and how their wing design contributed to their functionality.

Learn about the contributions women and African Americans made to the Army Air Force, and how they impacted the development of the armed forces for the future.  

Students recreate Triple Nickle jumps, figuring out the best method for their “paratrooping potato” to land safely on target.

Examine aircraft in the Museum's collection and how their design contributed to their role in World War II.

Learn about the number of biological and psychological hazards astronauts encounter that can impact the success of the mission as well as the long term health of the astronaut.  

Examine spacesuits in the Museum's collection and how they keep astronauts safe in space.

Apply what you know about the processes of weathering, erosion, and deposition and how it creates soil on Earth and use it to understand the geologic history of Mars.

Explore artifacts in the Museum's collection and their connections to weathering and erosion. Discover how NASA uses satellites and rovers to capture evidence of landscape changes.

In this virtual breakout room, crack the code and learn about how NASA detects changes in landscapes on Earth, Mars, and beyond. Solve codes from the different NASA missions to gain the final passcode for the final breakout!

Learn about the history and uses of navigational technology while determining imaging most helpful in locating a fallen drone.

Learn about GIS maps and engage in a hands-on challenge to create their own GIS map inspired by a flipbook of their own neighborhoods.

How do you plan a trip? Explore different ways to navigate journeys through items highlighted from the Museum's collection and contribute to our ability to understand and navigate the world around us.

Learn about Earth and its place in the universe through a meteorite exploration and engage in a sorting activity that challenges students’ knowledge of size, distance, and age of different objects in our universe.

Explore astronomy tools in the Museum's collection and their contribution to our understanding of the universe.

Explore the phases of the Moon, its relationship to Earth, and the story of the Apollo missions.

Examine artifacts in the Museum's collection and their role in getting us to the Moon.

Participate in a virtual breakout room to crack the code and learn about the first human journeys into space. 

Explore the climate and geology of Mars, along with the challenges of robotic exploration in space.  

Explore spacecraft in the Museum's collection that show the evolution of the technology we have used to explore Mars. Discover how design adapts to each mission's objectives.