Share the Wonder of NASA's Voyager Mission (Still Exploring 40 Years Later!) With Students

The Farthest Operating Spacecraft, Voyagers 1 and 2, Still Exploring 40 Years Later This year marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of the world's farthest and longest-lived spacecraft, NASA's Voyager 1 and 2. Four decades ago, they embarked on an ambitious mission to explore the giant outer planets, the two outermost of which had never been visited. And since completing their flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in 1989, they have been journeying toward the farthest reaches of our solar system – where no spacecraft has been before. These two intrepid spacecraft continue to return data to NASA daily, offering a window into the mysterious outer realms of our solar system and beyond. Find out more about their journey and how they're helping us understand what lies beyond our solar system in the space between the stars. It's all in the latest Teachable Moment from NASA/JPL Education specialist Ota Lutz – plus resources and lessons to help you bring the wonder of the mission to students. Read More   Try these standards-aligned lessons to get students doing math and science with a real-world (and space!) connection. Lesson: Hear Here – A Pi in the Sky Math Challenge (grades 10-12) – Students use the mathematical constant pi to determine what fraction of a signal from Voyager 1 – the most distant spacecraft – reaches Earth. Read more Lesson: Catching a Whisper from Space (grades 4-12) – Students kinesthetically model the mathematics of how NASA communicates with spacecraft. Read more Solar System Bead Activity (grades 1-6) – Students create a scale model of the solar system using beads and string. Read more

 

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