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Aeronautics@Home

Aeronautics@Home is a collection of activities and lessons to learn more about the science of flight and NASA Aeronautics.

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AERONAUTICS STAKEHOLDER AND WORKFORCE DEV LEAD

April Lanotte

STEM Engagement Embed to Aeronautics

Dave Berger

Build It!

Vice President Harris throwing a paper airplane with students at a STEM event at the White House.

Paper Airplane Template

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In the left image someone is holding a plastic bottle with liquid upside down and turning it. The right image shows the result, a tornado forming in the bottle.

Tornado in a Bottle

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Artist illustration of the X-59 in flight over water and land.

X-59 Paper Desktop Model

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X-59 Maker Bundle Flyer, showing the different activities available in English and Spanish.

X-59 Maker Bundle

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A middle-school male student in front a yellow background, wearing a backpack and holding a tablet. Around him are drawings of arrows and a lightbulb, airplanes.

Design Your Own X-Plane

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X-57 Educational Cover (Girl with binder with lines and drawings coming out of the binder surrounding her)

X-57 Maxwell: Circuits Activity Guide

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Image of a paper airplane, the X-59.

Make Your Own X-59

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Built Mars Helicopter

Build Your Own Mars Helicopter

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Air Vortex Cannon Activity

Air Vortex Cannon

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Green Balloon on a black background.

Nutty Balloon Noise Maker

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Tongue Depressor Harmonica Activity

Tongue Depressor Harmonica

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Gloved hands hold an LED light lit by battery made from pennies and the words "Connect LED"

Power It Up! (Make a Coin Battery)

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Hanging soda can has water flowing out of holes from its sides

Make an Aeolipile (Hero Engine)

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A tetrahedral kite

Build a Tetrahedral Kite

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Hand holds airplane made from a straw and paper

Make a Straw Plane

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Paper cup anemometer

Build an Anemometer

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Make It!

Angles of the X-66 3D model.

X-66 3D File

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Image of the X-59 3D Printing graphic. Left image is with the 3D print on a stand. Right image is without a stand.

X-59 3D Files

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X-59 Snowflake made out of paper.

X-59 Snowflake 3D File and More

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Explore It!

NASA's Junior Pilot Program: Sustainable Aviation Cover with Orville the Flying Squirrel Mascot standing in front of an image of a transonic-truss braced wing aircraft in flight.

NASA's Jr. Pilot: Sustainable Aviation

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Night image of two, T-38 aircraft on display.

Name That Plane

The ecoDemonstrator on display at AirVenture 2022.

Shape Memory Alloy Activity

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Ohm's Law

Your Flight Log cover shows a young school student holding a tablet with scribbles and drawings and text (X-Plane, research, innovation) floating around her.

Your Flight Log

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Orville the Flying Squirrel mascot with his arms spread open wide at National Reagan Airport.

Orville's Flight Log

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Flight Log Experience Card, with various aircraft and clouds as well as striped airmail lines.

Flight Log Experience

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Image of the inside pages of a flight log.

Pilot Logbook Activities

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Junior Pilot: X-59 Cover with Orville the Flying Squirrel Mascot standing in front of an image of the X-59 in flight.

NASA's Junior Pilot Program

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Aeronautics AR graphic with a green starburst that says Mobile App

Aeronautics AR (Mobile App)

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A boy who released a paper helicopter he created doing the Out for a Spin activity

Out for a Spin

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Screaming String Activity

Screaming String

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Seeing Sound Activity

Seeing Sound

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Illustration of an airplane with the directions of the four forces of flight labeled

Four Forces of Flight

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Hand holds a yardstick between two fingers

Measure Your Reaction Time

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Hands pluck a rubber band that is wrapped around a book and two pencils that are below a ruler on the table

Good Vibrations

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Coffee filters with numbers written inside

Exploring Drag

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A paper model of an airplane attached to pencils that run across the wings and along the fuselage

The Axes of Flight

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Man blows into a straw as a cheese puff floats above the other end

Changing Pressure Model

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Watch It!

Ingenuity_helicopter_still_image

Mars Helicopter

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What is AAM?

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Peter Coen—Low-Boom Flight Demonstration Mission Manager

NASA Edge: The Future of Commercial Supersonic Travel

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The NAVMAR Applied Sciences Corporation TigerShark, flew over Edwards Air Force Base on July 9, 2019.

Making Skies Safe for Unmanned Aircraft

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Small Steps Giant Leap's host on the Sonic Booms and the X-59. She is wearing a blue shirt with a NASA meatball on the right of her shirt. She is standing inside a hangar.

Sonic Booms and the X-59

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Screen shot from the video showing a man standing next to an X-Plane.

History of X-Planes

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NASA Aeronautics is Lowering Emissions

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Artist illustration of the X-59 in flight over a community.

The X-59 and How Sound Travels

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Solve It!

Mars Perseverance Coding cover, has an female teenager looking at an ipad with white scribbles of Mars Perseverance.

Mars Perseverance Parachute Coding Activity

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Aeronautics Cryptogram Activity

Aeronautics Cryptogram: Puzzle and Answer Key

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Hidden Words Activity

Hidden Words: Puzzle and Answer Key

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X-Plane Sudoku Activity

X-Plane Sudoku Puzzle and Answer Key

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X-59 Crossword Puzzle

X-59 Crossword Puzzle

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Airplane made from plotting points on a graph

Mystery Picture Graphing Activities

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Fundamentals of Flight Word Search

Fundamentals of Flight Word Search

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Drone Maze

Drone Maze

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Scrambled Words puzzle

Scrambled Words

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Logic puzzle grid

NASA Employee Panel Logic Puzzle

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Example of an nonogram

Aeronautics Nonograms

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Color It!

Color by Number (this one is of the Schlieren image of the X-59.

Color by Number

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Coloring page showing two aircraft in flight powered in part by electricity with the title: The Future of Aviation with NASA.

The Future of Aviation with NASA: EPFD Coloring Page

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Ingenuity coloring page, with Ingenuity in flight in mars.

Ingenuity Coloring Page

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DC-8 Coloring page showing a Black and white drawing of a DC-8 airplane

DC-8 Coloring Page

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The Transonic Truss-Braced Wing Airliner Coloring Page showing the TTBW Airliner in flight with clouds and a sun.

Transonic Truss-Braced Airliner Coloring Page

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The X-57 Coloring page, shows a Black and white drawing of the X-57 airplane

X-57 Coloring Page

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X-59 Coloring page.

X-59 Coloring Page

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X-15 and B-52 coloring page in flight among clouds and a sun.

X-15 and B-52 Coloring Page

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X-29 coloring page in flight among clouds and a sun.

X-29 Coloring Page

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X-1 coloring page in flight among clouds and a sun.

X-1 Coloring Page

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SSBD coloring page in flight among clouds and a sun.

SSBD Coloring Page

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F/A-18 coloring page in flight among clouds and a sun.

F/A-18 Coloring Page

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Orville the Flying Squirrel coloring page

Orville the Flying Squirrel Coloring Page

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Cover of High Flyers Alphabet Activity Book

High Flyers Alphabet Activity Book

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Coloring page from the Adventures in Aero Coloring Book with 3 kids and an airplane coloring.

Adventures in Aeronautics Coloring Book

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A 3-D dodecahedron made of paper featuring images of aircraft

Let's Fly Away! Dodecahedron

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Read It!

Advanced Air Mobility, with its many vehicle concepts and potential uses in both local and intraregional applications, is shown

AAM Bookmark

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Artist's rendering of X-57 Maxwell all-electric airplane.

X-57 Bookmark

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Artist illustration of the X-59 in flight over water and land.

Quesst Mini Poster

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Illustration of the X-57 aircraft in flight

X-57 Mini Poster

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Leveled Readers

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Craft It!

Cross-stitch of the Schlieren image of the X-59 in a hoop with scissors and two floss threads, in teal and gray.

Aeronautics Cross-Stitch Activity

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Aircraft design and identification activities flyer, shows the X-59 aircraft and the 6 activities that can be completed.

Aircraft Design and Identification Activities

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My Travel Logbook cover.

Travel Log Book

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Winter break activities flyer with an X-59 aircraft and Orville the Flying Squirrel. There are blue snowflakes scattered in the background and two rows of images with different winter activities you can do.

Winter Break STEM

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Color by Number (this one is of the Schlieren image of the X-59.

Color by Number

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Connect the dots and color activity of Orville as a snowman.

Connect the dots and color Orville's picture

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Image of airplanes made with craft sticks.

Craft Stick Aircraft

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Flat Orville (color image of Orville to cut out and take with you on your travels)

Flat Orville Template

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NASA's Junior Pilot Program: X-59 Cover with Orville the Flying Squirrel Mascot standing in front of an image of the X-59 in flight.

NASA's Junior Pilot Program

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En Español

X-59 Snowflake—Spanish

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Connect the dots and color activity of Orville as a snowman.

Connect the dots and color Orville's picture—Spanish

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Image of airplanes made with craft sticks.

Craft Stick Aircraft—Spanish

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NASA's Jr. Pilot: X-59 (Spanish) Cover

Programa de la NASA X-59 para Jóvenes Pilotos

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Artist illustration of the X-59 in flight over water and land.

X-59 Paper Desktop Model—Spanish

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X-59 Coloring page.

Página para colorear X-59

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Cover of High Flyers Alphabet Activity Book

High Flyers Alphabet Activity Book—Spanish

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Advanced Air Mobility, with its many vehicle concepts and potential uses in both local and intraregional applications, is shown

AAM Bookmark—Spanish

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Illustration of the X-57 aircraft in flight

X-57 Mini Poster—Spanish

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Image of a paper airplane, the X-59.

Make Your Own X-59—Spanish

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