Microbial Box 2: What’s in your Petri?
Your Mission: Sample, grow, and investigate the microorganisms around us. Microbiologists have found that microbes can live just about everywhere,...
Taste in Space
Your Mission: Explore taste sensations on the tongue and experiment to see which senses influence taste. For astronauts, all their...
Crew Assembly Training
Your Mission: Assemble a puzzle quickly and correctly to understand the importance of dexterity and hand-eye coordination. When working with...
Do a Spacewalk
Your Mission: Perform the “bear crawl” and “crab walk” to increase muscular strength and improve upper and lower body coordination....
Mission: Control!
Your Mission: Perform throwing and catching techniques on one foot to improve balance and spatial awareness. On Earth, we use...
Bonus Activity: 26.2 with Tim
Your MissionAccumulate a total of 42 km (26.2 mi) as a team, an individual or as a family… it is...
Energy of an Astronaut
Your Mission: Investigate healthy food choices and Calorie needs for life on earth vs. life in space Astronauts living on...
Astronaut Logbook: A week in the life of an astronaut with Samantha Cristoforetti
Your Mission: Follow Samantha’s routine on the ISS for one week and compare her daily tasks to yours. Observe your...
Speed of Light
Your Mission: Perform a reaction time activity using a ruler to practice hand-eye coordination and concentration. In preparation for space...
Bonus Activity: HIIT the Space Gym
Let’s HIIT the space gym and get ready to sweat! To keep those hearts and lungs healthy, perform a series...
Bonus Activity: Liftoff Languages
Astronauts need brains and brawn! Using your coordination, endurance and quick thinking, perform five jumping jacks, with a star-jump finish,...
Astro Farmer
Your Mission: Investigate which factors affect plant growth, and relate these factors to growing plants in space. All the things...
Building an Astronaut Core
Your Mission: Perform the Commander Crunch and Pilot Plank to improve the strength in abdominal and back muscles. Astronauts in...
Bonus Activity: Cosmic Cartwheels
In microgravity, astronauts love to perform spectacular somersaults. Here on Earth it’s not so easy, but it certainly is fun!...
Bonus Activity: Touchdown Charlie
Your Mission Playing sports requires teamwork and preparation. Teammates must work together. In space, astronauts also must react to new...
Robotic Arm
Your Mission: Design and build a robotic arm to perform some simple tasks. To help out in space, scientists have...
Astro Food
Your Mission: Identify which plants are suitable for growing in space as a good source of nutrition for astronauts. Food...
Astro Crops
Your Mission: Follow the development of three plants for 12 weeks to explore germination and plant growth. If astronauts are...
Bonus Activity: Venus Volcanoes
Venus is the most volcanic planet in our solar system and recent research suggests some of these volcanoes are still...
Planet You Go, Gravity You Find
Your Mission: Perform an exercise with balls of different weights, as if you were in different gravitational conditions, to strengthen...
Jump for the Moon
Your Mission: Perform jump training with a rope to improve strength and endurance. On Earth, humans experience the effects of...
Microbial Box 1
Your Mission: Investigate the relationship between microorganisms and many every day products. Microbes live everywhere, including outer space! Scientists have...
Hydration Station
Your Mission: Explore the importance of hydration and identify the signs of dehydration. Since our bodies are made up of...
Bonus Activity: Astro Art
During a spacewalks, astronauts need some serious dexterity and hand-eye coordination to carefully complete tasks, all while wearing bulky gloves...
Reduced Gravtiy, Low Fat
Your Mission: Discover the fat content of a meal and formulate a balanced meal using fat content information. As astronauts...
Bonus Activity: Base Station Boogie
You have just had a great day of exploring the Moon, but it’s time to head back to the base...
Explore and Discover
Your Mission: Carry weighted objects from the Exploration Area back to your Base Station to improve aerobic and anaerobic fitness. ...
Living Bones, Strong Bones
Your Mission: Observe and compare bones, and design bone models to investigate ways to keep bones healthy. Explorers need strong...
Space Rock-n-Roll
Your Mission: Perform a series of somersaults on the ground to improve body coordination, flexibility, balance and strengthen your back,...
Let’s Climb a Martian Mountain
Your Mission: Perform a climb training activity on wall bars or a rock wall to improve balance and coordination, and...
What’s your Space Height?
Your Mission: Measure different body parts and explore how these measurements might change in space. How tall are you? Are...
Peake Liftoff
Your Mission: Perform an activity that blends together squats, pushups, and jumping in the air (burpees) to promote muscular strength,...
Bonus Activity: Yoga in Space
Join ESA astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti and Jaime from Cosmic Kids on a brand new adventure… Yoga in Space! Follow along...
Get on Your Space Cycle
Your Mission: Train with a cycle to improve leg muscles, cardio-vascular fitness and endurance. One exercise device that is regularly...
Bonus Activity: Skip to the Moon
Did you know that jumping might be a key activity in keeping astronauts healthy in space? Try some jump rope...
Base Station Walk-back
Your Mission: Perform a walk, progressing to 1600m to improve lung, heart, and other muscle endurance. When exploring space, astronauts...
Bonus Activity: Nimble Navigation
Time for a brain (and body) twisting game! Using your flexibility and agility, we want to see you navigate your...
Agility Astro-Course
Your Mission: Complete an agility course as quickly and as accurately as possible to improve agility, coordination and speed. When...
Bionic Hand
Your Mission: Explore the anatomy of the hand and build a bionic hand from cardboard. In a near future, it...
Crew Strength Training
Your Mission: Perform body-weight squats and push-ups to develop upper and lower body strength in muscles and bones. Astronauts must...