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Touch Tomorrow: Gordon Library and Space Exploration!: Rocket Projects

Resources & activities on space exploration from the Gordon Library and beyond ...

Enjoy these hands-on, fun activities and projects about rockets!

Project: Make a Straw Rocket

Create a paper rocket that can be launched from a soda straw – then, modify the design to make the rocket fly farther!

See https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/project/make-a-straw-rocket/  for detailed instructions and materials needed!

 

 

Project: Build your own NASA spacecraft!

Build your own spacecraft!

How would you like to be the chief engineer for an important NASA mission? In this activity, you get to design the latest and greatest satellite. Your satellite could help study things happening on Earth, take pictures of planets in our solar system, keep an eye on our sun, or even find planets elsewhere in the universe!

 

Instructions at:  https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/build-a-spacecraft/en/

Project: NASA Bubble-Powered Rocket

Build a Bubble-Powered Rocket!

 

 

Cartoon paper rocket with animated bubbles coming out of engines.

Build your own rocket using paper and fizzing tablets! Watch it lift off. How high does your rocket go?

See https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/pop-rocket/en/ for the instructions.

Project: WATER ROCKET SIMULATORS

Water Rocket Simulator Programs from NASA

For details and instructions, see: 

 https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/rocket/BottleRocket/sim.htm

Space Joke of the Page!

Where do planets download their music from?
Neptunes.