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Webinar 2018/2019 – Where next? The past, present and future Moon exploration missions

Brief description: James Carpenter, from ESA’s Human and Robotics Exploration Directorate, working in areas focusing on space exploration, will give an overview of the lunar exploration efforts that have been done so far and discuss why space agencies believe returning to the Moon is the next stepping stone in space exploration.https://youtu.be/dbBaUM5ruUILanguages available:This video contains auto-generated […]

2018/2019 Moon Camp Winners Webinar With ESA Astronaut Tim Peake

Brief description: The teams behind the 12 winning projects of the Moon Camp Challenge 2018-2019 were invited to participate in a live webinar with European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake.https://youtu.be/VfWqZwIYSpELanguages available: This video contains subtitles in English, which can also be auto translated into multiple languages.Keywords:

2019/2020 Moon Camp Winners Webinar With ESA Astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Luca Parmitano

Brief description: ESA astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Luca Parmitano join the 2019/20 Moon Camp Challenge winning teams for a 1-hour webinar. Connecting from all over the world, the teams have their questions answered live by the ESA astronauts.https://youtu.be/yNWT1y9EzhULanguages available: This video contain auto-generated subtitles in English, which can also be auto translated into multiple languages.Keywords:

Join the Moon Camp Challenge 2019-2020

Brief description: ESA – European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer invites students all over the world to participate in the Moon Camp Challenge and design their own Moon settlement with a 3D modelling tool (Tinkercad or Fusion 360). Moon Camp is an education project run in collaboration between ESA and the Airbus Foundation, in partnership […]

Future Moon exploration

Brief description: Though it has been fifty years since humans first stepped on the Moon, we haven’t forgotten about Earth’s natural satellite. Several missions since Apollo have taught us so much about the Moon and have paved the way for humankind to return. ESA Moon scientist James Carpenter gives us an overview of these missions […]

Living on the Moon

Brief description: The Apollo Mission proved humans can work on the lunar surface but the longest lunar spacewalk lasted a total of 22 hours. Could humans spend longer amounts of time on the Moon? How about live there, as they do on the International Space Station? Lunar technology expert Bérengère Houdou describes living on the […]

3D Printing on the Moon

Brief description: We can 3D print just about anything these days, from tools and buildings to cells and even food. But that’s on Earth, where materials are readily available. What about in space or on the Moon? Could we 3D print a lunar base? ESA engineer Advenit Makaya walks us through the process.https://youtu.be/N-FltXDb8dILanguages available:This video […]

Resources on the Moon

Brief description: It’s common knowledge that the Moon is a cratered ball of rock. Stunning as it is in the night sky or in photographs taken from orbit the landscape is barren, grey, dusty and dark. Are there other things to be found than meets the eye? Moon scientist Alexandre Meurisse explains which resources can […]

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Brief description In this resource, pupils will spend a day recording approximately how much water they use for different activities. This is followed by an experimental activity in the classroom, where they will use pre-prepared “lunar ice cores” and filter these to get water. They will use the results of the first and second activity […]