Educational initiatives inspire future space systems engineers, scientists and visionaries.

Education

Virginia Space Flight Academy with Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority (VCSFA) / Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) offers Space Flight Adventure Camp in summer and weekends near Chincoteague Island on Virginia’s Easter Shore.  Students at the VSFA summer program listen to a launch briefing in the NASA Wallops Range Coordination Center (RCC) in the image below, image courtesy VSFA.

Space Operations Learning Center by NASA is a cool virtual training facility online!

Basics of Space Flight Learners' Workbook by NASA/Caltech JPL is a great tutorial on mission planning.

NOAA Space Environment Outreach features learning aids, like this primer on space weather.

The Aerospace Corporation Space Primer and GPS Primer are quick looks at space system design concepts.

Stardust@Home lets you help NASA find the first pristine interstellar dust particles ever brought to Earth.

Challenger Center engages students' enthusiasm for space to create innovative learning experiences.

NASA Education "To inspire the next generation of explorers ... as only NASA can."

NASA Robotics Alliance Project objective is to develop future robotics systems needed by NASA.

Amazing Space is the Formal Education Group of the Space Telescope Science Institute.