Description
What Students Experience
Working in collaborative mission teams, students complete a series of exciting engineering challenges inspired by real-world aerospace exploration.
Throughout the program, students will:
- Apply the engineering design process to solve complex challenges
- Design, build, test, and refine mission-based solutions
- Program and operate a rover during engineering missions
- Explore robotics, coding, and automation concepts
- Investigate astronomy, space exploration, and planetary science
- Collect, analyze, and interpret scientific data
- Collaborate through team-based mission planning
- Develop leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills
- Document their work through a professional Mission Development Log
Program Tuition
PART I | MISSION READINESS
Fall Semester • $550 • 14 Weeks
Build the skills before the mission begins.
PART II | MISSION INNOVATION & CAPSTONE
Spring Semester • $550 • 14 Weeks
Apply those skills through advanced mission design, engineering challenges, testing, and a final capstone presentation.
FULL-YEAR MISSION BUNDLE | $950
Enroll in both semesters and save $150.
Signature Missions
Engineering Challenges
Students design, build, test, and improve innovative solutions while learning that every prototype is an opportunity to learn.
Rover Missions
Mission teams program and navigate a rover through increasingly complex engineering challenges where strategy, precision, and teamwork matter.
Rocket Engineering
Students construct and launch water bottle rockets with goal of reaching the highest altitude.
Space Agriculture
Students investigate how plants can grow in challenging environments while exploring the science behind sustaining life during future space exploration.
Mission Planning & Research
Every mission requires careful planning, documentation, collaboration, and scientific reasoning as students work together to complete their objectives.
Mission Showcase
The program culminates in an exciting team challenge where students demonstrate their engineering solutions, Mission Development Logs, and mission accomplishments while celebrating everything they’ve learned throughout the program.
What Students Take Home
By the end of the program, students will have developed:
- Experience applying the engineering design process
- A professional Mission Development Log
- Robotics and introductory programming experience
- Hands-on engineering and design experience
- Scientific research and data analysis skills
- Stronger collaboration and leadership abilities
- Increased confidence in solving complex, open-ended challenges
More importantly, students discover that perseverance, creativity, teamwork, and curiosity are often the greatest tools an engineer can possess.
Why Families Choose NASA Space Missions™
Engineering isn’t about having all the answers.
It’s about asking better questions.
NASA Space Missions™ inspires students to embrace curiosity, tackle meaningful challenges, and develop the confidence to solve problems creatively. Through immersive, project-based experiences, students build critical thinking, resilience, collaboration, and leadership skills that prepare them for future opportunities in STEM and beyond.
Good to Know
- Tuition includes classroom instruction and standard mission materials only.
- Students work in collaborative teams. Individual responsibilities and project outcomes may vary.
- Mission activities and engineering challenges may be updated periodically to reflect new learning opportunities and available resources.
- Educational robotics, software, and equipment are provided for use during class unless otherwise specified.
- Transportation to and from The Tech Interactive field experience is the responsibility of each family unless otherwise communicated by RAAC Academy.
- Student projects and outcomes will vary based on individual effort, participation, teamwork, and creativity.
- While RAAC Academy has a history of national NASA competition success, participation in this program does not guarantee advancement, awards, or competition results.
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