About Mission X
Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut is an international educational challenge focusing on fitness and nutrition as we encourage students to "train like an astronaut."
Mission X is focused on fitness and nutrition because we know that a healthy body is necessary to be a 'Fit Explorer!' The World Health Organization has designated childhood obesity as one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century - and diet, physical activity, and health are the best answers to this largely preventable problem. Astronauts know the vital importance of physical training for mission success, and we are excited for kids all over the world to learn from them - for life success.
Teams of elementary students will learn principles of healthy eating and exercise, compete for points by finishing training modules, and get excited about the world's future in space and the educational possibilities for their own future. Students will practice scientific reasoning and teamwork while participating in hands-on training missions targeting strength, endurance, coordination, balance, spatial awareness, and more.
Train Like an Astronaut mission activities include: Base Station Walkback; Crew Strength Training; Do a Spacewalk; Mission: CONTROL!; Jump for the Moon; Explore and Discover; Agility Astro-Course; Speed of Light; Building an Astronaut Core; Crew Assembly; Let’s Climb a Martian Mountain; Planet you GO, Gravity you Find; Get on Your Space Cycle; and Space Roll and Roll. Educational science modules include: Living Bones, Strong Bones; Hydration Station; Energy of an Astronaut; and Reduced Gravity, Low Fat.
See below to learn more about the challenge teams, partner agencies and institutions, and what's happening in space education!
Austria
To learn more about what FFG and their partners are doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out http://www.ffg.at./ and www.planetarien-oesterreich.at.
To learn more about what ESA is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out www.esa.int/spaceflight/education.
Belgium
To learn more about what the Euro Space Center is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out http://www.eurospacecenter.be/.
To learn more about what ESA is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out www.esa.int/spaceflight/education.
Colombia
To learn more about what CCE is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out http://www.cce.gov.co.
Czech Republic
To learn more about what CSO is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out http://www.czechspace.cz.
To learn more about what ESA is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out www.esa.int/spaceflight/education.
Denmark
To learn more about what ESA is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out www.esa.int/spaceflight/education.
France
To learn more about what CNES is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out http://www.cnes-jeunes.fr/.
To learn more about what ESA is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out www.esa.int/spaceflight/education.
Germany
To learn more about what German Aerospace Center (DLR) is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out http://www.dlr.de/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-635/.
To learn more about what ESA is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out www.esa.int/spaceflight/education.
Italy
To learn more about what dell'Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out http://www.asi.it/it/educational/scuole and http://www.planetarioditorino.it/it/index.php.
To learn more about what ESA is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out www.esa.int/spaceflight/education.
Ireland
Ireland
Indonesia
Indonesia
Japan
To learn more about what JAXA is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out http://www.jaxa.jp/guide/student_e.html.
Netherlands
To learn more about what NSO and their partners are doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out http://www.spaceoffice.nl/ and http://www.space-expo.nl/.
To learn more about what ESA is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out www.esa.int/spaceflight/education.
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Norway
To learn more about what ESA is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out www.esa.int/spaceflight/education.
Portugal
To learn more about what ESA is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out www.esa.int/spaceflight/education.
Puerto Rico
To learn more about what NASA is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out www.education.nasa.gov.
Russia
Russia
Spain
Spain challenge teams are hosted in Madrid, Cataluña, Andalusia, Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha and coordinated by the ImFINE research group of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. To learn more about what they are doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out http://www.upm.es/institucional and http://www.upm.es/observatorio/vi/index.jsp?pageac=grupo.jsp&idGrupo=392.
To learn more about what ESA is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out www.esa.int/spaceflight/education.
Sweden
To learn more about what ESA is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out www.esa.int/spaceflight/education.
Switzerland
To learn more about what ESA is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out www.esa.int/spaceflight/education.
United Kingdom
To learn more about what UK Space Agency is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out http://www.ukspaceagency.bis.gov.uk/learningzone.aspx?id=8146.
To learn more about what ESA is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out www.esa.int/spaceflight/education.
United States of America
To learn more about what NASA is doing to get students inspired about human spaceflight, check out www.education.nasa.gov.
Observing Partners
These countries are supporting and helping to develop Mission X as they prepare for the next challenge; however, they are not currently hosting a team for Mission X.
Chile
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Costa Rica
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Mozambique
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South Africa
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