Your Mission: Perform a walk, progressing to 1600m to improve lung, heart, and other muscle endurance. When exploring space, astronauts …
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Explore the Mission X activities made by space scientists and fitness professionals working with real astronauts!
Your Mission: Perform a series of somersaults on the ground to improve body coordination, flexibility, balance and strengthen your back, …
Your Mission: Investigate the relationship between microorganisms and many every day products. Microbes live everywhere, including outer space! Scientists have …
Your Mission: Assemble a puzzle quickly and correctly to understand the importance of dexterity and hand-eye coordination. When working with …
Your Mission: Identify which plants are suitable for growing in space as a good source of nutrition for astronauts. Food …
Your Mission: Follow the development of three plants for 12 weeks to explore germination and plant growth. If astronauts are …
Your Mission: Investigate which factors affect plant growth, and relate these factors to growing plants in space. All the things …
Your Mission: Discover the fat content of a meal and formulate a balanced meal using fat content information. As astronauts …
Your Mission: Design and build a robotic arm to perform some simple tasks. To help out in space, scientists have …
Your Mission: Explore the anatomy of the hand and build a bionic hand from cardboard. In a near future, it …
Time for a brain (and body) twisting game! Using your flexibility and agility, we want to see you navigate your …
Your Mission: Perform the Commander Crunch and Pilot Plank to improve the strength in abdominal and back muscles. Astronauts in …
Let’s HIIT the space gym and get ready to sweat! To keep those hearts and lungs healthy, perform a series …
Your Mission: Follow Samantha’s routine on the ISS for one week and compare her daily tasks to yours. Observe your …
Your Mission: Perform a reaction time activity using a ruler to practice hand-eye coordination and concentration. In preparation for space …
Your Mission: Perform an activity that blends together squats, pushups, and jumping in the air (burpees) to promote muscular strength, …
Your Mission: Perform body-weight squats and push-ups to develop upper and lower body strength in muscles and bones. Astronauts must …
In microgravity, astronauts love to perform spectacular somersaults. Here on Earth it’s not so easy, but it certainly is fun! …
Venus is the most volcanic planet in our solar system and recent research suggests some of these volcanoes are still …
Your Mission: Explore taste sensations on the tongue and experiment to see which senses influence taste. For astronauts, all their …