The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station in Earth’s low orbit.  The space station is a joint project between five participating space agencies: NASA (USA), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada).  The ISS is a laboratory where crew members are able to conduct experiments.

Did you know that the International Space Station is the third brightest object in the sky and looks like a fast moving plane!  You can enter your city or town here and you’ll be given the exact time and place to look up to see the space station!

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Bring a Little Bit of Space into your home!

Try these at home activities to get more hands-on with your Space Learning!

Make Constellations: Do you have toothpicks and marshmallows on hand?  If you so you can print these constellation sheets and make replicas with toothpicks and marshmallows.  You can also build a space station or a tower to the moon!

Asteroid Hunt: If you can go outside, this is a great game! Search for “asteroids” rocks outside and paint with neon colored paints.  Once the paint has dried, divide players into two teams.  One team will hide the asteroids (either inside or outside, if possible) and the other team will search for them.  Once all of the asteroids have been found, switch sides so everyone gets a a turn at the fun of hiding and searching.