Aerospace Education Competitions

AEC runs events where students design space stations! In the not-too-distant future, our participants will travel to the stars. Are you in?

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@InSimEducation Can't wait to help judge the proposals this weekend!

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Our first event of the year is this weekend. The Western Space Design Competition will see students from across the Western USA participate in a hybrid weekend-long competition
#space #spaceeducation #STEM #STEMeducation

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Our "International Initiatives" panel is excited for the future, but recognizes there is oppty & needs regulation for "peaceful use of space". They call on all of us to keep the convo going, take action & share your excitement for space!

#spaceportsummit #spaceportsummit2021

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Check out the @nss reviewing the International Space Settlement Design Competition during their Space Settlement Summit!! Livestreaming now!!
https://t.co/ozGga0e5dy

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High school students! We’d like YOU to join us this spring to participate in the first ever East Coast Regional Space Settlement Design Competition. Check us out @ https://t.co/wFH22EzXeG and DM/reply below with questions 🚀

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On this day, the three-stage Jupiter-C debut achieves an altitude of 682 miles. Wernher von Braun is forced to deactivate and ballast the fourth stage with sand to prevent an "accidental" satellite launch.

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On this day, Luna 2, the second of a series of spacecraft launched in the direction of the Moon, had its first impact into the Moon

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On this day was the first Neptune flyby (closest approach at 29,240 km)

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On this day, the first manned space flight lasting over twenty four hours by Gherman Titov, who is also the first to suffer from space sickness.

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On this day was the first spacewalk by woman, Svetlana Savitskaya.

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On this day, Viking 1 touched down on the red planet's surface after a ten month journey. It was the first spacecraft to land on another planet successfully and perform its mission.

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On this day, Valentina Tereshkova, the first and youngest woman have flown in space with a solo mission on the Vostok 6. She orbited the Earth 48 times, spent almost three days in space, and remains the only woman to have been on a solo space mission.

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On this day, Pioneer 10 crossed the orbit of Neptune.

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On this day, a global dust storm covered Mars. Dust storms are seasonal on Mars, but this one was giant and long-lasting. One result was that NASA’s Opportunity rover ran out of battery power and has been quiet ever since. The agency is still hoping to re-establish contact.

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On this day, vapor plumes were found to have erupted from Europa. The ice-encrusted moon of Jupiter with a global ocean flowing underneath its surface has long been an enticing target in the search for extraterrestrial life.

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On this day, The TESS spacecraft launched. As it orbits Earth and the moon, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite will hunt for planets circling distant stars. In September it returned its first survey of one patch of sky containing 73 stars that planets might orbit.

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On this day, China’s Tiangong-1 space station crashed. It touched down in an area of the Pacific Ocean with no one but the fish to witness the splash.

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On this day, Alexey Leonov performed the first spacewalk when, while in orbit around the Earth, he left the Voskhod 2 capsule for extravehicular activity.

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On this day, Stephen Hawking passed away at 76. As The Times’s Dennis Overbye put it in the obituary, Dr. Hawking “roamed the cosmos from a wheelchair, pondering the nature of gravity and the origin of the universe and becoming an emblem of human determination and curiosity.”

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On this day, Venera 1 was first launched from Earth orbit of upper stage into a heliocentric orbit.