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37 courses across space science, engineering, policy and more. Sign in to open a course.

Free Partner Courses Beginner

Model Rocketry 101 (with Estes)

A free three-lesson introduction to model rocketry with Estes Industries: the safety code that makes the hobby safe, the parts of a …

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Free Machines and Missions Beginner

Rockets and Spacecraft

How launch vehicles are designed, tested, reused — and how they survive coming home.

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Free Space and Earth Beginner

Space Weather

How storms on the Sun travel to Earth, why our planet's magnetic field protects us, and what happens when space weather reaches …

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Free Humans in Space Beginner

The Human Body in Space

What weightlessness does to bone, muscle and mind, and how astronauts stay well.

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Free Start Here Beginner

The Story of Spaceflight

How we got from a beeping metal sphere to people living in orbit — and why it matters down here.

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Free Space and Society Beginner

Who Owns Space?

Nobody owns space — so who makes the rules, who gives permission to launch, who pays when something goes wrong, and what …

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Free Youth Wellbeing Beginner

Emotional Literacy

Naming feelings, understanding they are normal and that they pass.

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Free Humans in Space Beginner

Food and Farming in Space

Why eating in orbit is hard, and how crews are learning to grow their own.

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Free Start Here Beginner

How Rockets Fly

The real physics of getting off the ground — no maths degree required. Three short lessons, a balloon experiment, and a reason …

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Free Go Deeper Intermediate

Orbits, Properly

Stop describing orbits and start calculating them: orbital velocity, the rocket equation, delta-v budgets and the physics of getting home.

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Free Machines and Missions Beginner

Satellites and Watching Earth

How satellites stay up, what they can see when they look back, and the ordinary parts of your day they quietly hold …

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Free Space and Earth Beginner

Space Junk

Why a fleck of paint can crack a spacecraft window, how we keep track of the junk in orbit, and what people …

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Free Space and Society Beginner

The Space Economy

How the space industry really earns its money, why launch prices decide what gets built, and what keeps a space company alive.

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Free Partner Courses Beginner

Your Future in Space (with Club for the Future)

A free three-lesson course with Club for the Future on the many jobs that build the future in space, and how to …

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Free Start Here Beginner

A Tour of the Solar System

Meet our cosmic neighbourhood, from the Sun to the icy edge.

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Free Space and Society Beginner

Keeping Space Systems Safe

What a space system is really made of, why the part sitting on the ground usually needs the most protecting, and how …

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Free Go Deeper Intermediate

Life Support, Properly

Actually size a life support system: what a crew costs per day, what closing the water and oxygen loops buys, why carbon …

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Free Humans in Space Beginner

Living Off-World

Air, water, radiation and the human side of building a home somewhere with no atmosphere.

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Free Machines and Missions Beginner

Robots as Explorers

How machines explore the places people cannot reach yet, how a rover thinks for itself, and why we clean spacecraft before we …

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Free Youth Wellbeing Beginner

Self-Worth

That worth is not earned by performance, achievement, or by what you give to others.

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Free Space and Earth Beginner

Space Resources

Using what is already out there — and the honest argument about who it belongs to.

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Free Start Here Beginner

Astronomy: Reading the Sky

How we measure places we can never visit — and why looking out is looking back in time.

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Free Youth Wellbeing Beginner

Boundaries

That you are allowed to have limits, and how to hold them kindly.

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Free Space and Earth Beginner

Is Anyone Out There?

Three lessons on what life needs, where in the solar system and beyond it might survive, and how scientists would tell a …

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Free Machines and Missions Beginner

Mission Control

Meet the room full of ordinary people who actually run a space mission, from telemetry and go/no-go polls to the calm way …

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Free Go Deeper Intermediate

Reading Earth from Orbit

Stop admiring satellite pictures and start measuring with them: what each band sees, NDVI worked by hand, the resolution trade-off, and one …

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Free Humans in Space Beginner

Spacesuits

A one-person spacecraft: pressure, heat, and why the gloves are the hardest part.

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Free Space and Society Beginner

Working in Space

The commercial era, and the many real jobs in this industry that are not astronaut.

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Free Youth Wellbeing Beginner

Bullying & Difference

For the young person who is told they do not belong.

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Free Machines and Missions Beginner

Finding Your Way

How satellites, atomic clocks and a bit of relativity work together to tell your phone where it is, and why so much …

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Free Humans in Space Beginner

Making Things in Space

Take weight away and physics you thought was fixed starts behaving differently. Three lessons on what that lets people build in orbit, …

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Free Start Here Beginner

Sky Stories

How people all over the world read the same sky — for direction, for seasons, and for traditions that are still alive …

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Free Start Here Beginner

Anangokaa — Indigenous Star Knowledge

Indigenous peoples across North America hold detailed, still-living star knowledge — this course is about what it is for, why some of …

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Free Youth Wellbeing Beginner

Stress & Overwhelm

Simple, evidence-based tools for a nervous system under load.

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Free Machines and Missions Beginner

Talking Across Space

Radio, giant dishes and the delay you cannot argue with. How we hear from Mars.

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Free Youth Wellbeing Beginner

Asking For Help

Normalising help-seeking, and teaching exactly how and who to ask.

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Free Youth Wellbeing Beginner

Digital Wellbeing & Online Harms

Comparison, cyberbullying, and how online spaces amplify insecurity.

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