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Programs, people & discoveries
Explore 16 courses and 74 connected lessons. Start with a program that interests you, then follow its links into science, engineering, and history.
Some courses compare several programs or follow shared projects. Each keeps its own lesson sequence and suggested preparation.
16 courses to explore
Space programs and missions · Beginner to Intermediate
Learning whether people could live and work in orbit
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Space programs and missions · Beginner to Intermediate
New firsts, inherited hardware and difficult tradeoffs
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Space programs and missions · Beginner to Intermediate
Building a transport system, from rendezvous to recovery
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Space programs and missions · Beginner to Intermediate
Turning an orbital visit into a sustained workplace
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Space programs and missions · Beginner to Intermediate
A growing laboratory and the realities of long-duration operations
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Space programs and missions · Beginner to Intermediate
A shared doorway between rivals
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Space programs and missions · Beginner to Intermediate
A small moon, ambitious instruments and the limits of a mission’s final phase
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Space programs and missions · Beginner to Intermediate
Balloons in the clouds, spacecraft at a comet and a worldwide observing team
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Space programs and missions · Beginner to Intermediate
What early encounters teach us about spacecraft, evidence and partial success
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Space programs and missions · Beginner to Intermediate
Learning to measure a world that defeats familiar assumptions
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Space programs and missions · Beginner to Intermediate
Driving a lunar laboratory from Earth—and learning from it decades later
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Space programs and missions · Intermediate
Follow the signals, from northern orbits to commercial service.
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