To earn a Space Exploration Merit Badge, a Scout will explore both current and historic space systems and their functions. Design a futuristic station capable of sustaining life on other worlds. Get hands-on experience by building and launching model rockets. Conclude your studies by discovering the careers that drive space exploration forward.
Space Exploration Program Summary: See details of work required here
Print this workbook to start your prerequisites: Workbook
Event Waiver: Please read, complete and print. Bring signed portion with you for the Space Exploration Merit Badge Clinic: Waiver
Required Prerequisites:
- Borrow or purchase “Space Exploration Merit Badge Book” and read cover-to-cover. Also, bring this book with you for your merit badge session
- Start and/or complete the following items in your workbook: 2, 5b and/or 5c, 7, and 8
Planetarium Show Topics & Requirements Explained:
- Purpose of Space Exploration (1a-1d)
- Space Pioneer (2)
- Build, launch, recover a model rocket (3a-3i)
- Space travel science concepts (4a-4d)
- Robotic space exploration (5a)
- Purpose & operation of a space shuttle or ISS (6a-6b)
- Careers in Space Exploration (8)
Planetarium Staff Activities:
- Build, launch, recover a model rocket (3a-3i) **rocket launch is weather dependent**
