NASA Educational Support

APL's Space Department Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) office strives to excite and inspire the next generation of explorers by creating hands-on, minds-on learning experiences for students, educators and the general public. Visit APL's Space Department Education and Outreach Programs web site for more information.

For every space program APL carries out for NASA, our creative teams develop program websites so the public can learn about and follow the missions.

Careers in Space, an APL-made video geared to middle school age students who may be interested in math, engineering, and space science. Students videos include introduction, mission purpose, design and build, testing, launch and mission operations.

The "Space Academy” series – launched in 2000 by The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Comcast Cable and The Discovery Channel – takes students behind the scenes of actual space missions and introduces them to engineers and scientists working on some of NASA's most exciting projects. More than 100 Maryland middle school students got a close-up look at the first spacecraft planned for the "last planet” when they spent a day at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) for Space Academy: Mission to Pluto.