Bring together a team of students to create a space habitat for the astronauts of the future.
Be creative! You can explore the Moon or other places in the Solar System and decide which tools you want to use.
The deadline for submissions is 28 April 2025. Submit your project to receive a participation certificate. All projects will be published in the Moon Camp Gallery.
A final online event with an ESA astronaut open to all the participants will take place in May or June 2025.
To join Moon Camp your team has to create a habitat for human space exploration.
In the future, to enable astronauts to stay on the Moon or other planets for long periods of time, new infrastructures must be developed to overcome important challenges. Such challenges include protection from radiation and meteorites, energy production, the extraction and recycling of water, food production and much more.
Moon Camp has a open format. Your team can explore the Moon but also venture further into other locations in our Solar System. For some suggestions and extra information about planets and moons in our Solar System visit the Choose your Space Location page.
Your team’s project can also be submitted in any format you prefer, and be created using different tools and techniques. These projects can range from scientific experiments, artistic or hands-on projects, design of space infrastructures, 3D printing models, virtual or augmented reality worlds and much more. For some suggestions of tools and techniques visit the Choose your Design Tool page.
Are you a teacher and curious about how you could potentially fit Moon Camp into your curriculum? Visit the Moon Camp in the Curriculum page to discover examples of projects for different school subjects.
Level: beginners to advanced, your team chooses how complex the project will be
Age range: up to (and including) 19 years old
Language: language of their choice
Submission format: short description of the project, including supporting elements such as images, or a video, or a 3D design object.
Registrations: open from 10 September 2024 to 28 April 2025 (23:59 CEST).
Mid-year online event with a space expert: January or February 2025, open to all interested students and teachers.
Final online event with an astronaut: May or June 2025, open to all the participants that submitted a project.
Submitted projects are published in the Project Gallery.
Certificates: All teams will receive a participation certificate once the project is published in the project gallery.
1. Create a user account to submit your project on the Moon Camp platform.
2. Submit your project by 28 April 2025 latest. Submissions must include:
3. Once submitted you will receive a confirmation email. Once the submission has been approved by ESA, it will be published in the online gallery and you will receive an email with the certificates.
* Moon Camp is open worldwide. In the framework of the current collaboration agreement between ESA and Airbus Foundation, if you apply from an ESA Member State, Slovakia, Slovenia, Canada, Lithuania or Latvia your team will have to fulfil the following extra conditions:
Learn more about the project and guidelines
Includes examples for teachers who want to implement Moon Camp in the curriculum
Decide where your habitat is going to be located in the Solar System
Decide how you would like to create and build your space habitat
Learn more about the space environment and available tutorials, teacher guides and multimedia
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