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Free Space Kit for Children: From Earth, to the Moon, Mars, and Beyond!

Monday, March 11, 2024toWednesday, March 13, 2024
Two pick-up locations on the Macdonald Campus
Price: 
Free
2022-12-03 – NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio embark on a spacewalk to install a roll-out solar array to improve the power configuration on the Space Station. Attached to the foot restraint on Canadarm2, Cassada (above) manoeuvres the solar array into position.
Image by NASA.

Calling all young space enthusiasts!

Join Let's Talk Science at Â鶹AV and explore Canada's impressive contributions to space technology. Discover the different types of telescopes, orbiters, landers, rovers  and helicopters used in space exploration and what information these technologies share with us.

The booklet will take you back to historic missions and their remarkable achievements through to present and upcoming missions, such as the ongoing Artemis missions.

The kit includes a printed booklet, materials for hands-on activities, and a pair of certified (reusable) eclipse eyeglasses or viewer for viewing the solar eclipse of April 8.

  • Children ages 6 to 12
  • French and English kits available
  • Limit of 1 kit per child

Pick-up your kit between March 11 and March 15:

  • Staff and Faculty: Service Desk, Macdonald Campus Library (9:00am to 5:00pm)
  • Student parents: CC-124, Centennial Center (9:00am to 4:30pm)

Image: 2022-12-03 NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio embark on a spacewalk to install a roll-out solar array to improve the power configuration on the Space Station. Attached to the foot restraint on Canadarm2, Cassada (above) manoeuvres the solar array into position.


°Õ³ó±ðÌý is a volunteer-based group of graduate and undergraduate students from a wide range of faculties at Â鶹AV. Our volunteers deliver hands-on classroom presentations, host public STEM events, mentor for and evaluate projects at regional science fairs, and provide STEM outreach to a range of urban and indigenous schools!

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