Join ESA Reserve Astronaut John McFall in a new series of videos for Mission X
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...
Peake Liftoff
Your Mission: Perform an activity that blends together squats, pushups, and jumping in the air (burpees) to promote muscular strength,...
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...
Jump for the Moon
Your Mission: Perform jump training with a rope to improve strength and endurance. On Earth, humans experience the effects of...
Skip to the Moon
Did you know that jumping might be a key activity in keeping astronauts healthy in space? Try some jump rope...
Astro Food
Your Mission: Identify which plants are suitable for growing in space as a good source of nutrition for astronauts. Food...
Bionic Hand
Your Mission: Explore the anatomy of the hand and build a bionic hand from cardboard. In a near future, it...
Base Station Boogie
You have just had a great day of exploring the Moon, but it’s time to head back to the base...
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...
Robotic Arm
Your Mission: Design and build a robotic arm to perform some simple tasks. To help out in space, scientists have...
Speed of Light
Your Mission: Perform a reaction time activity using a ruler to practice hand-eye coordination and concentration. In preparation for space...
Do a Spacewalk
Your Mission: Perform the “bear crawl” and “crab walk” to increase muscular strength and improve upper and lower body coordination....
Astro Crops
Your Mission: Follow the development of three plants for 12 weeks to explore germination and plant growth. If astronauts are...
Building an Astronaut Core
Your Mission: Perform the Commander Crunch and Pilot Plank to improve the strength in abdominal and back muscles. Astronauts in...
Liftoff Languages
Astronauts need brains and brawn! Using your coordination, endurance and quick thinking, perform five jumping jacks, with a star-jump finish,...
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...
Taste in Space
Your Mission: Explore taste sensations on the tongue and experiment to see which senses influence taste. For astronauts, all their...
Astro Art
During a spacewalks, astronauts need some serious dexterity and hand-eye coordination to carefully complete tasks, all while wearing bulky gloves...
Nimble Navigation
Time for a brain (and body) twisting game! Using your flexibility and agility, we want to see you navigate your...
Crew Assembly Training
Your Mission: Assemble a puzzle quickly and correctly to understand the importance of dexterity and hand-eye coordination. When working with...
Touchdown Charlie
Your Mission Playing sports requires teamwork and preparation. Teammates must work together. In space, astronauts also must react to new...
Living Bones, Strong Bones
Your Mission: Observe and compare bones, and design bone models to investigate ways to keep bones healthy. Explorers need strong...
Cosmic Cartwheels
In microgravity, astronauts love to perform spectacular somersaults. Here on Earth it’s not so easy, but it certainly is fun!...
Mission: Control!
Your Mission: Perform throwing and catching techniques on one foot to improve balance and spatial awareness. On Earth, we use...
Venus Volcanoes
Venus is the most volcanic planet in our solar system and recent research suggests some of these volcanoes are still...
Explore and Discover
Your Mission: Carry weighted objects from the Exploration Area back to your Base Station to improve aerobic and anaerobic fitness....
Space Rock-n-Roll
Your Mission: Perform a series of somersaults on the ground to improve body coordination, flexibility, balance and strengthen your back,...
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...
A Microbial World
Your Mission: Sample, grow, and investigate the micro-organisms around us and research their relationship with many of the products we...
Astro Farmer
Your Mission: Investigate which factors affect plant growth, and relate these factors to growing plants in space. All the things...
Base Station Walk-back
Your Mission: Perform a walk, progressing to 1600m to improve lung, heart, and other muscle endurance. When exploring space, astronauts...
Agility Astro-Course
Your Mission: Complete an agility course as quickly and as accurately as possible to improve agility, coordination and speed. When...
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...
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...
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...
Yoga in Space
Join ESA astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti and Jaime from Cosmic Kids on a brand new adventure… Yoga in Space! Follow along...
Reduced Gravity, Low-Fat
Your Mission: Discover the fat content of a meal and formulate a balanced meal using fat content information. As astronauts...
Mission Journal
Your Mission: Track your space adventures, monitor progress, and reflect on your journey in your Mission X Journal. Let your...
Hydration Station
Your Mission: Explore the importance of hydration and identify the signs of dehydration. Since our bodies are made up of...