Welcome NASA Commercial Crew Program Children's Art Contest Winners!

Learn more about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program by watching our What’s it’s All About Video.
  • NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is working with Boeing and SpaceX on launches to and from the International Space Station. Join NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Mike Hopkins as they explore the ins and outs of the Commercial Crew Program. This video will guide you through NASA’s partnerships with commercial companies and how these rockets will return American astronauts to launching from American soil for the first time since 2011. Learn about what will happen as the rocket heads toward the space station and how the crew capsule will safely return astronauts home.
Hear from NASA’s Commercial Crew Program deputy manager, Dana Hutcherson, about her role in aerospace and how you can follow in her footsteps! Click here.
  • “NASA STEM Stars” is a webchat series. Each chat introduces a science, technology, engineering or math career, addresses a STEM topic and highlights a NASA mission. The chat includes a STEM activity that students can do at home. After the interviews, experts answer students' questions.
Be transported to the launch pad and other awe-inspiring locations with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program 360 Video Series.
  • Get ready for an immersive, Virtual Reality tour of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program! Get an overview of the Commercial Crew Program with historical insights and introductions to CCP’s vehicles and commercial partnerships with Boeing and SpaceX.
Check out NASA’s STEMonstrations series to watch and recreate cool STEM demonstrations on the International Space Station.
 
Share NASA’s Expeditionary Skills for Life series with your teacher to try out lesson plans and activities at home and at school!
  • Expeditions are journeys made by people who share a definite purpose and specific experiences. To make their expeditions successful, NASA works with astronaut crews on skills that prepare them to live and work together during space missions. Some of these same skills are useful in everyday life here on Earth. 4-H is a positive youth development program that prepares youth for life and work. Together, NASA and 4-H are creating the following series of activities designed to take you through various educational expeditions that will help you learn and practice skills that you can apply in almost every aspect of life.
 
Please also enjoy the following STEM resources that have been categorized by age:
 
Recommended activities for children ages 4-6, or parents/educators of 4-6 year-olds:

“Students experiment and change variables of different types and sizes of string and cups to determine the best method for transmitting sound on a string-cup phone. Learners will be able to explain how sound travels and demonstrate how the transmission of sound waves is affected by different materials.” “Download this printable coloring, writing and activity book. Work puzzles and learn new words about NASA's Commercial Crew Program that launches astronauts to space on American rockets.” Climb aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon and attempt to dock with the International Space Station in this fun computer simulation. Sit down with NASA astronauts and enjoy story time together as they read some of your favorite children’s books from space!
Recommended activities for children ages 7-9, or parents/educators of 7-9 year-olds:

“Can you measure like an engineer? Download and print this page to practice measuring. There is a ruler on the page that you can use. Then, measure and learn about the things NASA uses to launch a rocket.” “Beginner and advanced student programmers use Scratch, Snap! or another programming language to create an interactive simulation of a spacecraft docking to the space station. The activity guide includes recommendations for beginner and advanced level programming. The advanced option is more appropriate for students with experience using block-based programming languages.” Sit down with NASA astronauts and enjoy story time together as they read some of your favorite children’s books from space!
 
Recommended activities for children ages 10-12, or parents/educators of 10-12 year-olds:

“Students use the engineering design process to construct, test and analyze a prototype parachute designed to slow the descent of an egg and minimize the force of impact when landing, allowing the "eggstronaut" to land safely.”
  • NASA and Microsoft: Day of Data Lessons and Astronaut Events
“Day of Data: Rockets program, where students can explore how data powers our astronauts, our space missions, and our world. Celebrate data with on-demand conversations with astronauts, lesson plans, and virtual experiences. Prepare your students for the future by tapping into their creativity and curiosity today with NASA and Microsoft Hacking STEM – take them on a journey to outer space! “Beginner and advanced student programmers use Scratch, Snap! or another programming language to create an interactive simulation of a spacecraft docking to the space station. The activity guide includes recommendations for beginner and advanced level programming. The advanced option is more appropriate for students with experience using block-based programming languages.” “This activity book is designed to appeal to students in grades 6-8. It is hoped that the activities presented herein will serve not only to convey information about the International Space Station, but about the challenges and rewards inherent in exploring space - both for the benefit of life on Earth, as well as for humankind’s eventual expansion to the Moon, Mars, and the wonders which await us beyond.”
 
Don’t forget to download and print the 2022 winning artwork posters!
Download the Winning Artwork Poster for Ages 4-6
Download the Winning Artwork Poster for Ages 7-9
Download the Winning Artwork Poster for Ages 10-12
You can also download and print our Commercial Crew Program bookmarks and posters here!  
 
Thank you again for your participation this year and enjoy the resources above!
Please keep following NASA’s Commercial Crew Program online and on social media for information on next year’s contest and to follow all of our upcoming missions!