Learning Resources

Explore the engineering behind landing on other planets and what is in store for future missions.

Join STEM in 30 as we explore the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta and bring you the history of balloons, the science behind hot-air and gas balloons, and the pageantry of the Fiesta.

Boldly go on a voyage with STEM in 30 as we explore the Star Trek universe

Join STEM in 30 as we investigate the principals of flight and how the Wright Flyer made it into the air and into the history books.

Join us on STEM in 30 from the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina and look at the crossover between space, air and car forces and technologies.

Meet the women who are helping pave the way to Mars, and Astronaut Abby, a college student who has set her sights on becoming an astronaut and the first person to step on the planet Mars.

On Triton, Neptune’s largest moon, seasons last an average of 40 years, complete with nitrogen snow. Here’s how Triton’s summer solstice compares to Earth’s.

The inverted ribbon cut maneuver is when a pilot flies an aerobatic plane toward a string spanning a runway between two poles held in place by two brave people.

Dale L. White Sr., was a prominent African American pilot, best known for his 1939 “Goodwill Flight” with Chauncey Spencer from Chicago to Washington, DC.

On October 11, 1984, a female American astronaut stepped outside her spacecraft for the first time. Kathryn D. “Kathy” Sullivan had work to do in the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Challenger,

When the Apollo 11 spacecraft lifted off on July 16, 1969, for the Moon, it signaled a climactic instance in human history.

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