Instructional Video2:49
NASA

Exploring the Solar System: Lucy Goes to Space

3rd - 11th
Discover the mysteries of the solar system through the eyes of the Lucy mission and its team members. This first episode features Deputy Principal Investigator Cathy Olkin, who discusses Lucy's journey out...
Instructional Video4:00
Curated Video

Exploring Apollo 11: The Historic Moon Landing Mission

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Apollo 11 was the spacecraft that successfully delivered Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon in 1969. Learn about the structure of the spaceship and details of the mission.
Instructional Video2:34
NASA

Counting Comets

3rd - 11th
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a joint mission between ESA (the European Space Agency) and NASA, was not designed to find comets — its original goal was to study the Sun from its deep core to the outer layers...
Instructional Video5:14
NASA

NASA's Parker Solar Probe Touches The Sun For The First Time

K - 11th
For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there.
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Instructional Video3:03
NASA

Take a Spin With NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

K - 11th
On schedule to launch no later than May 2027, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission will help uncover some of the biggest mysteries in the cosmos. The state-of-the-art telescope on the Roman spacecraft...
Podcast26:42
NASA

‎NASA in Silicon Valley: Daniel Andrews Talks About Exploring The Moon With Robots

Pre-K - Higher Ed
A conversation with Daniel Andrews, Project Manager for NASA’s Resource Prospector mission.
Instructional Video3:50
NASA

An Update on Our Artemis I Mission on This Week @NASA – February 25, 2022

K - 11th
An update on our Artemis I mission, test firing an Artemis rocket engine, and a resupply mission delivers to the space station … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! Producer: Andre Valentine Editor: David Anderson...
Instructional Video1:27
NASA

NASA | So, You Want to Build a Satellite?

3rd - 11th
Part 2: Putting It Together



Building satellites isn't easy. They're complex, expensive, and not to mention hard to make! This is why whenever NASA makes a new satellite--like the MAVEN mission to Mars--its scientists and...
Instructional Video1:10
Next Animation Studio

$10 billion dollar telescope reaches magical spot in space

12th - Higher Ed
The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope has safely arrived at Lagrange Point 2 — and it’s now getting ready to look back in time to 13.7 billion years ago.
Instructional Video1:55
Next Animation Studio

NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration program

12th - Higher Ed
NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration program first proposed in 2015 consists of three phases. <br/>
Instructional Video1:33
Visual Learning Systems

The Outer Planets: Jupiter

3rd - 8th
Students are taken on an exciting animated trip to the outer reaches of our solar system. Images from NASA and the Hubble space Telescope illustrate the Giant Red Spot on Jupiter, Saturns' beautiful rings, the tilted rings of Uranus, and...
Instructional Video1:57
Visual Learning Systems

Nearby Planets

9th - 12th
This video provides a brief overview of the planets closest to Earth in our solar system, including Mercury, Venus, and Mars. It describes the unique characteristics of each planet and includes images and footage from spacecraft that...
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: A Long Way Down: Designing Parachutes Lesson 2

3rd - 6th
Students use information about the temperature, atmosphere, and surface of a planet to imagine how a spacecraft traveling to that planet might be designed. [14:29]
Instructional Video
NASA

Nasa New Horizons: Pluto in a Minute: How Did New Horizons Phone Home?

9th - 10th
Find out how the NASA space mission New Horizons phoned home, and how exactly a spacecraft communicates to Earth from 3 billion miles away. [1:46]
Instructional Video
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: How a Lego Shuttle Got to Space

9th - 10th
Raul Oaida, 18-years-old, attached a LEGO shuttle, a video camera and a GPS tracker, to a huge helium balloon and sent them into space. Oaida says flight time was just about three hours and the shuttle reached an altitude of 115,000 feet...
Instructional Video
California Academy of Sciences

Ca Academy of Sciences: Falcon 9 Takes Off!

9th - 10th
With the successful launch of Falcon 9 on June 4, 2010, Space-X began its move into commercial space flights. This article helps us understand what the change from NASA-controlled space flight to commercial flights might mean.