Make a Mission

Remember "My Very Educated Mother...." That's right! It's part of a sentence to help you remember your planets! Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars. You make up the rest of the sentence for Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune! In this online activity, you'll have a chance to act like a spacecraft engineer by deciding what equipment to send up in a spacecraft destined for Mercury.

Activity

Play the Game

Print the Activity Sheet
You may want to print the Activity Sheet, too, so that you can refer to it while experimenting.

Online Resources

50 Years in Space
NASA shows a history of how humans have explored space.