Background

On the last day of the 70th annual International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Jim Bridenstine said that he is the first NASA administrator who was born after the last moon program. He emphasize*s* that he doesn´t have memories of that.

We have an entire generation like this and we can't let this continue to happen!

Did you know that only 30 years ago becoming an astronaut was something many children dreamed of?Today is isn’t even on the radar as a possible career for children. In fact, we now have an entire generation of children who have been born after the last shuttle left North American soil.

We can’t rely on manned space missions to capture our children’s imaginations to get them interested in space anymore. We need them to grow up and invent the next generation of space capabilities to improve life on Earth and beyond it. So we must capture their imagination in other ways!

The project

We want to make children dream about space again. We will use the power of storytelling to achieve this. We will create interactive videos, available on our future website, for children to watch. They can then complete a set of tasks that may or may not alter the next story.

Please watch our Hackathon presentation to fully understand our vision:

Data use

The first few episodes will incorporate data available in these NASA websites:

https://www.nasa.gov/what-is-artemis

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/

Here are some examples of the tasks the children may be asked to perform after a video:

- Check whether the information presented is authentic

- Choose the best piece of information to send to Artemis in each case

- Build the Artemis program timeline

The second set of episodes will highlight data about humans in space:

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/humans-in-space

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expedit...

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/memories...

Here are some examples of the tasks the children may be asked to perform after a video:

- Discover how many humans has NASA sent to space so far

- Share a family member ́s memory about Apollo program

- Learn about the astronauts from 61 expedition and fill a file with their information

Summary

We believe that capturing children’s imagination with 11 year old Artemis and real live NASA space data we can get them interested in space. We hope to see more children aspiring to be space researchers and maybe even astronauts.