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Join the Artemis Mission to the Moon

Make, launch, teach, compete and learn. Find your favorite way to be part of the Artemis mission.

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Form Your Artemis Team

Students compete in Artemis Student Challenges while building foundational knowledge on topics and technologies critical to the success of Artemis.

Kids and Families

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Teach Artemis

Lessons and activities use space exploration as a theme for STEM subjects.

Decorate Your Space

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Learn About Artemis

NASA is returning to the Moon and creating a sustained presence to use as a springboard for Mars exploration.

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Lane Polak is a technical writer for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System), where he is responsible for creating content that raises public awareness of NASA and specifically SLS.

I Am Artemis

Learn more about the people behind Artemis.

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Join Artemis Student Challenges

Student teams ready their rockets for launch during NASAs Student Launch competition near NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, April 15.

Student Launch

Student Launch involves reaching a broad audience of middle and high schools, colleges, and universities across the nation in a nine-month commitment to design, build, test and launch vehicle and payload components that support NASA's Space Launch System and Artemis. Proposal Submissions Due: Sept. 11, 2024.

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Human Exploration Rover Challenge

HERC features an engineering design challenge to engage high school, college and university students worldwide to design, develop, build, and test human-powered rovers capable of traversing challenging terrain and a task tool for completion of various mission tasks. Proposal Submissions Due: Sept. 19, 2024.

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NASA App Development Challenge

ADC is a coding challenge in which NASA presents technical problems to middle and high school students seeking student contributions to deep space exploration missions. Registration Closes: Sept. 25, 2024.

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LUNABOTICS

Lunabotics provides accredited institutions of higher learning students (vocational-technical, college, university) an opportunity to apply the NASA systems engineering process to design and build a prototype robot. Application Deadline: Oct. 3, 2024.

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Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams

Micro-g NExT challenges undergraduate students to design, build, and test a tool or device that addresses an authentic, current space exploration challenge. Letter of Intent Due: Oct. 8, 2024.

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Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students

SUITS is a design challenge in which college and university students from across the country help design user interface solutions for future spaceflight needs. Proposal Submission Deadline: Oct. 31.

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First Nations Launch

First Nations Launch is an annual competition that offers Tribal Colleges, and Universities, Native American-Serving Nontribal Institutions, and American Indian Science and Engineering Society chapter students, the opportunity to demonstrate engineering and design skills through direct application in high-powered rocketry.

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Great Lunar Expedition for Everyone

GLEE is a science and technology mission to the surface of the Moon conducted by university students from all over the world.

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NASA Space Apps Challenge

The NASA International Space Apps Challenge is a hackathon for coders, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, technologists, and innovators around the world!

NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars

NCAS has three missions designed to challenge and build student knowledge and skills by focusing on NASA’s mission goals, collaboration, and career pathways.

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NASA Internships

NASA offers several opportunities for students to undertake meaningful and challenging projects that truly make an impact on humanity.

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Search NASA STEM Gateway

Discover a wealth of opportunities to broaden your experience in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics with NASA.

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Mission: All Systems Go!

NASA’s ‘Mission: All Systems Go!’ is a multimedia program of custom videos, space-themed imagery and tangibles specially developed to ease anxieties of young patients facing prolonged cancer treatment therapies and other intense medical protocols by likening their upcoming challenge to that of a NASA astronaut’s mission.

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"No Small Steps" Videos Series (Grades 5-12)

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NASA's Journey to the Moon Comic Activity (Grades 5-12)

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The Adventures of Commander Moonikin Campos and Friends (Grades 5-12)

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A Story About Artemis (Grades 4-6)

What Is the Artemis Program? (Grades K-4)

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Build a Model SLS Rocket With School Supplies (Grades 5-12)

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Build a Test Spacecraft and Protect Your Astronauts (Grades 5-12)

An illustration of the Orion spacecraft. Throughout this decade, NASA will explore more of the Moon than ever before and establish a sustainable human presence under Artemis in preparation for future human missions to Mars.

What Is Orion? (Grades K-4)

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Forward to the Moon Puzzle Booklet (Grades K-8)

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Color My Space With NASA (Grades K-8)

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Artemis Coloring Sheet (Grades K-4)

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"On Target" Hands-on Activity (Grades 5-12)

The craters Takel and Cozobi are featured in this image of Ceres from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. Takel is the young crater with bright material on the left of this image, and Cozobi is the sharply defined crater just below center.

"Impact Craters" Hands-on Activity (Grades K-8)

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NASA Podcasts (Grades 9-12)

Virtual Reality Program Allows for Immersive SLS Experience (Grades 8-12)

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What Is the Space Launch System? (Grades K-4)

"First Woman" Interactive Novel

Fictional astronaut Callie Rodriguez continues exploring space as the first woman to walk on the Moon in a new issue of NASA’s First Woman graphic novel series. Now available digitally in English and Spanish, “First Woman: Expanding Our Universe,” follows Callie and her crewmates as they work together to explore the unknown, make scientific discoveries, and accomplish their mission objectives.

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"First Woman" Graphic Novel and Camp Experiences (Grades K-12)

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Lunar Surface Exploration (Grades 5-8)

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Artemis Generation Spacesuits (Grades 5-8)

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Artemis I STEM Learning Pathway (Grades K-12)

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Deep Space Communications (Grades 5-8)

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Build to Launch With LEGO Education and Artemis (Grades K-12)

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Landing Humans on the Moon (Grades 6-8)

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NASA "STEM Forward to the Moon" Activity Guide (Grades K-8)

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Engineering Design and Rocketry Lesson Plans (Grades 6-8)

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Math and Engineering Design Lesson Plans (Grades 6-8)

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Moon to Mars Bingo (Grades 5-12)

Artemis Camp Experience

Make your next camp about Artemis! Explore hands-on activities, instructional videos' and the Artemis I Launch Map infographic to bring the excitement of returning to the Moon to the Artemis Generation of Explorers.

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Decorate Your Space With Artemis

Become and Artemis expert with the latest graphics and shareable content for home and the classroom.

Framed by vegetation in the foreground and against the backdrop of a black night sky, NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test on Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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This graphic shows the profiles of the Artemis II astronauts, from left to right: NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. All four astronauts are wearing orange Orion Crew Survival System spacesuits. They are superimposed on an image of the Moon. The text reads, "10 days, 685,000 miles, Around the Moon for all humanity, Artemis II."

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Why We Are Going To The Moon

Learn About Artemis

We’re going back to the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and inspiration for a new generation of explorers: the Artemis Generation. While maintaining American leadership in exploration, we will build a global alliance and explore deep space for the benefit of all.

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Learn More about Artemis Missions

Artemis I

Artemis I was an uncrewed flight test of the Space Launch System and the Orion spacecraft around the Moon.

Artemis II

Artemis II will be the first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System and the Orion spacecraft around the Moon.

Artemis III

Artemis III will send the first humans to explore the region near the lunar South Pole.

Artemis IV

Artemis IV debuts humanity's first lunar space station, a larger, more powerful version of the SLS rocket, and new mobile launcher.

I Am Artemis Features

Learn more about the people behind Artemis.

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Lane Polak is a technical writer for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System), where he is responsible for creating content that raises public awareness of NASA and specifically SLS.

Lane Polak is a technical writer for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System), where he is responsible for creating content that raises public awareness of NASA and specifically SLS.

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