Museum & Informal Education Alliance

Throughout the year, thousands of student interns contribute to NASA's missions of human spaceflight, aeronautics, space science and Earth research. NASA interns use their creativity and innovation to work on projects that impact NASA’s mission, like sending the first woman and next man to the Moon. Be part of an amazing virtual team while contributing to NASA missions. Learn more at https://intern.nasa.gov/.
 
Visit the 10 Things You Can Do Now to Prepare for a NASA Internship webpage. 

One of the samples collected during the Apollo 15 mission was a 4 billion year old piece of the moon’s primordial crust, nicknamed the Genesis Rock. Take a peek inside the Lunar Sample Lab where it and other samples are stored and studied. The Lunar and Meteorite Sample Disk Program is intended for K-12 classrooms, or qualified museums and libraries to borrow actual lunar samples and meteorites! 

Get your monthly overview of the night sky.

Do you love making art and using your imagination? So do we! Every NASA mission starts with a creative idea about how to explore something in a new way. Get creative and submit your art before the deadline at the end of the month!

Commander David Scott performed a live demonstration on the Moon, dropping a hammer and a feather at the same time. Because they were essentially in a vacuum, there was no air resistance so the feather fell at the same rate as the hammer. Galileo had concluded this hundreds of years before - all objects released together fall at the same rate, regardless of mass.  Here’s the transcript of the experiment.

Neil A. Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio,
on August 5, 1930. He began his NASA career in Ohio.

As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing mission, Armstrong gained the distinction of being the first man to land a craft on the moon and first to step on its surface.

Ever since 1939, August 19 has been celebrated as National Aviation Day, the legacy of a presidential proclamation first made by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Selected because it was Orville Wright’s birthday, the decision to revel in all things aeronautical came at an exciting time in aviation history.

Explore Aeronautics STEM for resources and activities for all ages, including even the youngest.  A paper airplane engineering station is always a good activity; check out Wingin’ It, and this Ring Wing Glider. Here are more fun tips for celebrating.