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Make, launch, compete and learn. Find your favorite way to be part of the Artemis mission.
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Form Your Artemis Team
Students compete in Artemis Student Challenges while building foundational knowledge on topics and technologies critical to the success of Artemis.

Explore Hands-on Activities
K-12 students can engage in the Artemis missions through our people and resources.

Launch Learning With Artemis
Access interactive tools like simulations, open data, and game platforms, to help students build confidence and curiosity in STEM subjects.

Decorate Your Space
Become an Artemis expert with the latest graphics and shareable content for home and the classroom.

Learn About Artemis
NASA is returning to the Moon and creating a sustained presence to use as a springboard for Mars exploration.

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I Am Artemis
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Launch Your Name Around Moon in 2026 on NASA’s Artemis II Mission
The collected names will be put on an SD card loaded aboard Orion before launch.
NASA is inviting the public to join the agency’s Artemis II test flight as four astronauts venture around the Moon and back to test systems and hardware needed for deep space exploration. As part of the agency’s “Send Your Name with Artemis II” effort, anyone can claim their spot by signing up before Jan. 21. Participants can download a boarding pass with their name on it as a collectable.
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Join Artemis Student Challenges

Student Launch
Student Launch involves reaching a broad audience of middle and high schools, colleges, and universities across the nation in a nine-month commitment to design, build, test and launch vehicle and payload components that support NASA's Space Launch System and Artemis.

Human Exploration Rover Challenge
HERC features an engineering design challenge to engage high school, college and university students worldwide to design, develop, build, and test human-powered rovers capable of traversing challenging terrain and a task tool for completion of various mission tasks.

NASA App Development Challenge
ADC is a coding challenge in which NASA presents technical problems to middle and high school students seeking student contributions to deep space exploration missions.

LUNABOTICS
Lunabotics provides accredited institutions of higher learning students (vocational-technical, college, university) an opportunity to apply the NASA systems engineering process to design and build a prototype robot.

Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams
Micro-g NExT challenges undergraduate students to design, build, and test a tool or device that addresses an authentic, current space exploration challenge.

Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students
SUITS is a design challenge in which college and university students from across the country help design user interface solutions for future spaceflight needs.

Great Lunar Expedition for Everyone
GLEE is a science and technology mission to the surface of the Moon conducted by university students from all over the world.
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Mission: All Systems Go!
NASA’s ‘Mission: All Systems Go!’ is a multimedia program of custom videos, space-themed imagery and tangibles specially developed to ease anxieties of young patients facing prolonged cancer treatment therapies and other intense medical protocols by likening their upcoming challenge to that of a NASA astronaut’s mission.
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Students can choose Artemis images and the level of difficulty (Grades K-4)

What is Lunar Regolith? (Grades 5-8)

Surprisingly STEM: Moon Rock Processors (Grade K-12)

Travel to the Moon With Spacey Casey! (Grades K-8)

Hooray for SLS! Children's Book and Activities (Grades k-4)

"No Small Steps" Videos Series (Grades 5-12)

The Adventures of Commander Moonikin Campos and Friends (Grades 5-12)

A Story About Artemis (Grades 4-6)

What Is the Artemis Program? (Grades K-4)

Build a Model SLS Rocket With School Supplies (Grades 5-12)

What Is Orion? (Grades K-4)

Forward to the Moon Puzzle Booklet (Grades K-8)

Color My Space With NASA (Grades K-8)

Learn How to Draw Artemis (Grades 5-12)

Artemis Coloring Sheet (Grades K-4)

"On Target" Hands-on Activity (Grades 5-12)

"Impact Craters" Hands-on Activity (Grades K-8)

NASA Podcasts (Grades 9-12)

Virtual Reality Program Allows for Immersive SLS Experience (Grades 8-12)

What Is the Space Launch System? (Grades K-4)
Launch Learning With Artemis

Build, Launch, Recover Activities (Grades 5-12)

Habitation with Gateway Activities (Grades 5-12)

Slowing Down in Space Activity (Grades K-5)

NASA Exploration Experience Guide (Grades 5-12)

Spacesuits: Heads-Up Display Activity (Grades 5-8)

Gaining Traction on Mars Activity (Grades 5-12)

Digging on the Moon Activity (Grades 5-12)

Artemis Camp Experience (Grades K-12, Informal Education)

Propulsion With the Space Launch System (Grades 5-8)

Build to Launch With LEGO Education and Artemis (Grades K-12)

NASA "STEM Forward to the Moon" Activity Guide (Grades K-8)

Engineering Design and Rocketry Lesson Plans (Grades 6-8)

Moon to Mars Bingo (Grades 5-12)
Decorate Your Space
Become an expert with the latest graphics and shareable content for work, school, or just for fun, and learn about all things Artemis as the agency and its partners cross off milestones leading up to Artemis II and missions beyond.

Artemis II Resources
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Crawler and Mobile Launcher Virtual Background

Large Moon and Mars Virtual Background

SLS Virtual Background

Astronaut Regolith Virtual Background

Astronaut Step Virtual Background

Orion Virtual Background

Moon Phases Virtual Background

The Gateway Virtual Background

Space Launch System Infographics

Artemis Poster

Build Your Own Orion

Lunar Background for Virtual Classroom

Backgrounds for Desktop and Mobile

Artemis-inspired Background Gallery for Virtual Classroom

Orion Background for Virtual Classroom

Orion Poster

Orion Collectibles

Artemis I Launch Image Gallery

Artemis Pumpkin Carving Shareables
Learn About Artemis
We’re going back to the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and inspiration for a new generation of explorers: the Artemis Generation. While maintaining American leadership in exploration, we will build a global alliance and explore deep space for the benefit of all.
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