Audience
Educators, Students
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12, Informal Education
Subject
Engineering Design, Technology
Type
Websites
Cubes in SpaceTM, a program by iEDU, provides students access to space to design, research and test experiments on NASA missions.
Cubes in Space is offered in collaboration with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center – Wallops Flight Facility, NASA’s Langley Research Center, and Science Systems and Applications Inc. Educators are invited to join us to bring space to students for scientific exploration, research and technology development. If you are a formal, informal, homeschool or non-formal educator, you can bring the Cubes in Space program to your student(s).
Educators register for the program and deliver the course to the students 11-18 years of age that are not attending a university or college. Students learn and design experiments or technologies that connect to a real-world Earth or space-based problem or need. Experiments are proposed through the Application for Spaceflight that educators submit on the students’ behalf. If selected, experiments are launched from a NASA facility in summer 2024 and returned to students.
For the selected experiments, educators receive the plastic payload cubes that house the experiments. Post-flight, the experiments are returned for students to conduct (further) testing and analysis.