The new biopic ‘First Man’ explores the life of NASA Astronaut Neil Armstrong from his days as a test pilot in the Mojave Desert all the way through his world-famous steps on the moon. It is a thoughtful film, far from a nostalgic hero flick or crazed adrenaline rush.
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Disney Junior made history by premiering a new episode of ‘Mission Force One’ aboard the International Space Station! The episode “The Space Station Situation” also features voices of real astronauts and NASA employees as Miles and his crew visit the present-day ISS. Available May 8 for Earth-bound viewing.
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Celebrate Pi Day with fun educational activities from NASA JPL while your Pi Day pie bakes (or gets laser etched). Then upload your math geekery to share with the world!
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LEGO is looking for your ideas for a Moments in Space set to produce! Submission deadline is February 9, 2018.
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The Guardians of the Galaxy have teamed up with the International Space Station to offer students the chance to join Team Rocket or Team Groot by proposing an experiment to actually fly into space.
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Create a custom droid using littleBits Droid Inventor Kit by January 31, 2018. Get judged on video submission by Daisy Ridley and Kathleen Kennedy. Win a trip to Lucasfilm or a signed R2-D2!
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Elon Musk has released video that shows how hard it is to land a rocket, including previously-unreleased footage of some of the failed attempts. Did I mention it has a Monty Python soundtrack?
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More than just a remote-controlled robot, this electronics set empowers kids to design, build, and program a droid for a variety of missions.
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To encourage kids to hack their world, engineering toy company GoldieBlox has released two new live-action weekly video series on YouTube.
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Ahead of the President’s visit to SXSW on Friday, today the White House announced the 2016 National Week of Making on June 17-23. The announcement also kicked off a $200k Career and Technical Education (CTE) Makeover Challenge for US high schools.
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Tired of singing about your confusion as to what stars are–when you know exactly what they are and why they twinkle? Try this new version instead!
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Today, Spaceship Earth Grants opens the door for anyone to apply to be an astronaut. Really.
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Maker Camp, a 6-week online summer camp hosted by the folks at MAKE and Google, is almost done for the year! Thankfully, the Internet is here to let us relive the fun any time we want.
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Tune in online to watch a live Q&A with the Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ann Druyan, and Seth MacFarlane discussing their new science miniseries COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey, tonight at 9-10pm EST at COSMOSonTV.com. Send in your questions via Twitter using #cosmoslive.
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Even for those of us that are crazy enough to have paid to run to exhaustion through a Disney park before, the latest addition to the RunDisney lineup is exciting!
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Paleontologist Dr. Stephen Brusatte explains why the fun new “Walking With Dinosaurs” is the most realistic dinosaur movie ever created.
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We’ve all been there: a relative’s house or holiday party. The food is…immense. Delicious. Decadent. Drinks may be flowing along with wave after wave of holiday feast. It may not all be good. It may all look the same after a while (“Is this the same pie I saw last party? A confectionary clone?”). An […]
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A heartwarming LEGO set based on the friendliest movie alien from my childhood would automatically get my vote. This one is also complex and well-thought out with multiple individual items able to tell the whole E.T. story.
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Planetary Resources is giving away observation time on a new space telescope through their Kickstarter campaign. Grab some before time runs out!
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The International Space Apps Challenge is a two-day technology development event collectively presented by NASA in collaboration with 100 partner organizations including the European Space Agency, TechShop, Raspberry Pi, and the National Science Foundation. Participants will work together, hackathon style, in a 48-hour sprint to solve challenges relevant to improving life on Earth–and in space.
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On Tuesday, April 16th, Verizon FiOS will release exclusive footage from Iron Man 3 that will be featured only on the Facebook Page of the USA Science & Engineering Festival–the largest celebration of science & engineering in the U.S..
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On Wednesday, NASA unveiled the President’s FY2014 budget proposal for the nation’s space program.
Continue ReadingOn Friday, Rovio’s Angry Birds franchise took a giant leap into the real world with the unveiling of a new space-themed attraction at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The new interactive exhibit features a kid-friendly …
Continue ReadingIn a marketing campaign too strange not to be true, the Axe brand of grooming products for men has recruited Buzz Aldrin to promote their new “Apollo” scent. Oh, and they’re sending 22 guys into space too through the Axe …
Continue ReadingDaniel Craig returns to portray British secret agent 007 in this 23rd installment in the James Bond movie series. This time, the plot centers around a ghost from the past of “M”, director of the British secret intelligence agency MI6.
Continue ReadingThis week SpaceX became the first US commercial company to deliver cargo to ISS and became the world’s leader in returning cargo back to Earth from space.
Continue ReadingAlexander Chen uses string length and pitch equations to create a math-based interactive Bach concierto in your browser at baroque.me
Continue ReadingHave the past three years left you or your kids bored of tossing birds around on your screen? The latest offering from Rovio of Bad Piggies may be more intellectually challenging than you expect.
Continue ReadingLeave the kids at home when you head out to see the new time travel flick Looper, opening today. In the future, the mob uses outlawed time travel to send victims 30 years into the past where they are executed …
Continue ReadingThe Conrad Foundation’s 2012 Spirit of Innovation Challenge asks teens 13-18 to create innovative solutions and vy for $10k seed funding to make their product a reality. Do you know someone that should enter??
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