New "What's Up" Video Available
Our Sky
Get your monthly overview of the night sky.
Event Type: Online Presentation/Interaction. Online Event Type: For Classrooms.
Thursday, May 1, 2025.
NASA Space Place's Art Challenge
Other
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!
Thursday, May 1, 2025.
National Space Day
National Space Day dedicates the first Friday of May to the extraordinary achievements, benefits and opportunities in the exploration and use of space.
Annual / Historic: Annual Event.
Friday, May 2, 2025.
"Star Wars" Day
Other
May the Fourth be with you! Star Wars Day is a fun excuse to celebrate the cinematic universe- and the even more amazing real universe.
A few fun connections:
"May the Force = Mass x Acceleration" Teachable Moment blog post Brett Kennedy, a roboticist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, on which Star Wars robots actually have the right stuff for space travel. , Brian Muirhead, chief engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, weighs in on the best way to build a Death Star and navigate through asteroids. , BB8 and a friend visited JPL to learn about exploration of our solar system and meet other robots, including robots that explore Mars. , An article about more NASA/Star Wars connections , Star Wars Day site.
Event Type: Annual /Historic. Annual / Historic: Annual Event.
Sunday, May 4, 2025.
National Astronaut Day
Human Spaceflight
May 5th celebrates the first American astronaut, Alan Shepard, and his flight aboard the Freedom 7 spacecraft. Learn more about the flight on NASA's page.
Event Type: Annual /Historic.
Monday, May 5, 2025.
For more info visit nationalastronautday.uniphigood.com. NASA Fall Internship Applications Due
Other
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/. (And for internships at NASA JPL, visit https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/internships/)
Visit the 10 Things You Can Do Now to Prepare for a NASA Internship webpage.
Annual / Historic: Annual Event.
Friday, May 16, 2025.
Towel Day
Other
“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Of course the ISS Expedition 42 crew had to do this for their fun poster.
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti reads from Douglas Adams's “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” for Towel Day from the European laboratory Columbus on the International Space Station.
The science of a wet towel in space.
Event Type: Annual /Historic.
Sunday, May 25, 2025.
For more info visit www.towelday.org. National Paper Airplane Day
Aeronautics
Take flight and celebrate this high-flying day with fun hands-on activities.
3..2..1.. Takeoff! Small Steps to Giant Leaps Lesson Plan
, Shape Your Flight: Small Steps to Giant Leaps Lesson Plan
, Wright Brothers’ Models (out of foam, not paper)
, Paper Jet Model
, Classroom Activity: The Ring Wing Glider
, Paper Airplanes.
Event Type: Annual /Historic. Annual / Historic: Annual Event.
Monday, May 26, 2025.
For more info visit www.nasa.gov. New "What's Up" Video Available
Our Sky
Get your monthly overview of the night sky.
Event Type: Online Presentation/Interaction. Online Event Type: For Classrooms.
Sunday, June 1, 2025.
NASA Space Place's Art Challenge
Other
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!
Monday, June 2, 2025.
World Environment Day
Earth-Sun-Moon
NASA offers many ways for community scientists to get involved with Earth Science research. Check out climate.nasa.gov and https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscience and get started!
Event Type: Annual /Historic. Annual / Historic: Annual Event.
Thursday, June 5, 2025.
For more info visit www.worldenvironmentday.global. World Ocean Day
Earth-Sun-Moon
Part of NASA's mission is to develop an understanding of the total Earth system and the effects of natural and human-induced changes on the global environment. Our oceans play a major role in influencing changes in the world's climate and weather. Collecting and analyzing long-term ocean data from satellites is a relatively new field of exploration. The analysis of remotely-sensed ocean data makes it possible to understand the ocean in new and exciting ways.
http://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/oceanography/.
Event Type: Annual /Historic. Annual / Historic: Annual Event.
Sunday, June 8, 2025.
For more info visit www.worldoceansday.org. 115th Anniversary (1910) of Jacques Cousteau's Birth
Earth-Sun-Moon
Jacques-Yves Cousteau dedicated his life to the exploration of Earth's seas and oceans. He was born in St. André de Cubzac, Gironde Province, France, in 1910.
A quote from a NASA interview: "At the very beginning of the space program, there was, among all the ocean specialists, a kind of scandalized reaction, saying, 'How is it that so much money is going to be spent to explore distant things that have very little to do with our life, while the ocean seems so little known, and needs so much funding?' I don't know why, but at that time I had the vision of what space would bring to oceanography. Since the beginning, I was convinced that our duty was to explore outer space as much as or more than inner space. The reasons that I had were purely philosophical, and since then they have become very practical. Everything that happens is demonstrating the need for space technology applied to the ocean."
Also, see "Why We Explore," a panel discussion of Cousteau, Ray Bradbury, and others in 1976.
Event Type: Annual /Historic. Annual / Historic: Historic Anniversary.
Wednesday, June 11, 2025.
For more info visit history.nasa.gov. National Selfie Day
Other
Learn how the Perseverance rover takes a selfie, here!
Event Type: Annual /Historic.
Saturday, June 21, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
International Women in Engineering Day
Other
Organized by the Women’s Engineering Society, International Women in Engineering Day is an international awareness campaign which raises the profile of women in engineering and focuses attention on the amazing career opportunities available to women and girls in this exciting industry. Learn more and get resources here.
Annual / Historic: Annual Event.
Monday, June 23, 2025.
Tau Day
Other
Related to Pi Day, Tau is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its RADIUS, approximately 6.28, or 2 times Pi.
Celebrate math and all its applications, including space exploration!
Event Type: Annual /Historic. Annual / Historic: Annual Event.
Saturday, June 28, 2025.
For more info visit www.jpl.nasa.gov. International Asteroid Day
Comets/Asteroids
This is the United Nations day "to raise public awareness about the asteroid impact hazard." See What you Need to Know and NASA eClips videos about asteroids, plus a great line up of resources from JPL Education.
Read more about the Center for Near Earth Object Studies.
Watch this NASA Planetary Defense Coordination Office feature, which gives a great overview of how NASA finds, tracks, and categorizes objects that could pose an impact threat.
Virtually examine some asteroids (and even some pieces of Mars!) with the Astromaterials 3D Interactive and NASA's Eyes on Asteroids.
Event Type: Annual /Historic.
Monday, June 30, 2025.
For more info visit asteroidday.org. New "What's Up" Video Available
Our Sky
Get your monthly overview of the night sky.
Event Type: Online Presentation/Interaction. Online Event Type: For Classrooms.
Tuesday, July 1, 2025.
NASA Space Place's Art Challenge
Other
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!
Tuesday, July 1, 2025.