Mission to Planet Earth: A Digital History
Space+ Gamified Learning App
Summary
Space+ is a gamified learning app designed to empower future generations to pursue STEM education and explore careers in space technology.Take the flight director seat and be in charge of mission control with interactive tasks, rich data simulations, and earn points to compete with other users!Think you're a space enthusiast? Well try your chance at the leaderboard with hard challenges against AI players.Learn about NASA missions to advance human spaceflight and earth sciences, take a deep dive into what it takes to become an astronaut, and explore the different flight systems that make up a spacecraft.Space+ is designed to be ultimate fun and love of learning for all ages!
How I Addressed This Challenge
Space+ app overcomes the difficult barriers in learning about earth sciences, space technology, and engineering by bringing together past and future missions into a high-level dashboard.
It puts a fun twist with tasks, learning quizzes, and mini-games to successfully complete NASA missions. By engaging with the app, you're learning about NASA history, it's collaboration with ecosystem partners like SpaceX, and a human perspective of what it takes to become an astronaut!
We're working on modules for space systems that takes a real-world look at all the data emitted by different instrumentation and technologies in spacecraft with rich simulations.
This is an incredible start and we're excited about the future potential of this gamified learning app.
How I Developed This Project
Our team has designed and architected the app with modern React web technology to be compatible on any device with the same visual experience.
The app uses a flexible framework to allow for easy and creative extensibility of learning modules, tasks, quizzes, and mini games.
We're seeking to publish the project on Github and have a community driven effort of creating these learning resources. No serious coding required to contribute!
History is diverse, complex, and there's alot of opportunity for including numerous past and future missions to get people excited about space technology.
Our early alpha has been published online, and we're looking forward to what the future holds.
Programming Languages and Tools:
React.js, Gatbsy.js, TypeScript, Styled Components, Github, Figma Design, Amazon Web Services, AWS Amplify
How I Used Space Agency Data in This Project
We've leveraged NASA's image gallery and details on its collaboration with ecosystem partners published on NASA.gov.
For rich and interactive simulations, we've looked at NASA and SpaceX launch programs, the different data-driven metrics used in mission control and are currently working on expanding this capability.
We hope the app will become the go-to place for learning about past and future missions.
Project Demo
Data & Resources
- https://images.nasa.gov
- https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/crew/index.html
- https://www.nasa.gov/spacex