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