Humanity’s position in space exploration is as soon as once more being celebrated.
The 2022 version of World Area Week begins Tuesday (Oct. 4), with occasions highlighting the theme “Space and Sustainability.”
The week is timed with the sixty fifth anniversary of the Sputnik launch from the Soviet Union, which turned the primary human-made object in orbit on Oct. 4, 1957. Since then, 1000’s of satellites (and numerous space particles) are prompting discussions concerning the results on astronomy, launches and different space actions.
“WSW will have a good time two branches of the subject to be lined: reaching sustainability in space, and reaching sustainability from space,” officers with the occasion wrote, saying their focus is “the orbital space surrounding Earth itself [as] a finite useful resource.”
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This theme seems to be a response to the rising threat of megaconstellations, like SpaceX‘s Starlink web undertaking, in addition to space collision occasions like a Russian anti-satellite check that occurred nearly precisely a yr in the past in November 2021.
Learn extra about key World Area Week occasions beneath, and how one can set up your individual occasion.
Holding an occasion
All World Area Week occasions are listed on this global calendar (opens in new tab). (As of this time, NASA and European Area Company occasions are usually not but listed.)
Having your occasion listed there requires following 4 major steps: holding it between Oct. 4 and 10, selecting an exercise (whose viewers can vary from preschool to senior residents), planning the occasion with “World Area Week” branding, after which spreading the phrase.
“We encourage you to ship a press launch to your native newspaper or TV/radio station, and announce it on social media, utilizing the World Area Week hashtag,” the organizers stated (opens in new tab). This yr’s hashtags are #WSW2022, #worldspaceweek, #worldspaceweek2022 and #spaceandsustainabilitywsw.
Extra particulars about registering your occasion and suggestions for holding it can be found at this World Space Week webpage (opens in new tab). You may also tag your photos on Flickr to hitch a World Space Week album (opens in new tab).
Examples of events (opens in new tab) embrace:
- Computer systems working space software program or for shopping space web pages
- Live performance of space-related music
- Distribute space literature
- Exhibit of space-related artwork, books or magazines, {hardware}, maps, moon rocks or meteorites, pictures, stamps, space memorabilia or pupil tasks
- Movies about space
- Libraries characteristic space books
- Mannequin rocket launch by college students and adults
- College actions to excite youngsters about math and science
- Science fiction pageant
World Area Week highlights
World Area Week’s official listing of event highlights (opens in new tab) embrace:
- U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris introduced a new coalition of space companies (opens in new tab) that may give attention to rising the space business’s capability to satisfy the rising demand for the expert technical workforce.
- Chris Boshuizen, One Large Leap Australia Basis, Moonshot and RMIT Area Trade Hub have introduced “Mission: Sustainability” (opens in new tab), a problem for Australian college students to design a sustainable space station of the long run.
- Prestwick Spaceport within the United Kingdom will launch a short film to encourage young people to consider a career in Scotland’s (opens in new tab) end-to-end space sector. The movie will be made accessible to varsities in collaboration with Skypath — a careers initiative from South Ayrshire Council’s Economic system and Regeneration service.
- One Large Leap Australia Basis and Area Groups will set up “Mission OZ!” (opens in new tab), a six-day digital space mission for college students ages 12 and up.
The Area Basis
The Area Basis’s list of World Space Week events (opens in new tab) contains:
- Oct. 4: Boeing Art Showcase — Art In The Stars (opens in new tab)
- Oct. 4: Reading of Earth: My first 4.54 Billion Years (opens in new tab): Small Steps, Large Leap engages little space explorers with interactive and artistic storytelling.
- Oct. 5: Robots and Coding (opens in new tab): Learn the way robots work and the way scientists use them in space exploration.
- Oct. 6: Space Matters (opens in new tab): Area Basis’s second season of “Area Issues” convenes well-known coverage influencers for month-to-month excessive degree space coverage conversations on rising subjects and traits inside the international space financial system.
- Oct. 7: Live Mission Briefing (opens in new tab): This participating classroom occasion will allow college students from all backgrounds throughout the nation to discover fifty completely different STEAM careers related to establishing a moon colony.
- Oct. 8: Electricity & Circuits (opens in new tab): This month’s Tesla’s Toolbox workshop dives into electrical energy and circuits.
- Oct. 9: #Space4Fun (opens in new tab): tenth Anniversary Household Day: Area Basis Discovery Heart is popping 10 years outdated.
White Home initiatives
Newly introduced White House funding and initiatives (opens in new tab) for 2022’s World Area Week embrace:
- Army Area Careers Web site: The Division of Protection will launch a space STEM careers page (opens in new tab) to showcase profession paths and enhance consciousness about navy space profession alternatives.
- “Noggin’s Area Place” Collection: Noggin (opens in new tab)‘s Area Place, a group of animated and dwell motion movies and sources, will launch content material together with youngsters’s questions for astronauts within the Worldwide Area Station, a particular episode of “Noggin Is aware of,” and free educator guides to assist academics use the training media.
- Mission Unstoppable to Function Ladies in Area Jobs: CBS’s weekly tv present, Mission Unstoppable (opens in new tab), will share tales of girls from various backgrounds who contribute to the exploration, discovery, and software of space-related data, together with techniques engineers, local weather scientists, satellite upkeep technicians, astronomers and solar physicists.
- New Educator Useful resource Hub for Area STEM Supplies: 100Kin10, (opens in new tab) a nationwide community of educational establishments, nonprofits, foundations, corporations and authorities businesses, will launch a brand new publicly accessible useful resource with free space-inspired science curricular supplies and studying sources for PreK-12 academics and college students.
- Particular Assortment of Area STEM Educator Sources: Discovery Education (opens in new tab) will curate a particular “Area Week” assortment of space STEM sources on its digital studying platform. These embrace space-focused STEM profession movies, and educational sources for educators from content material companions, together with NASA, Nationwide Science Basis and Boeing.
- Knowledge Science for Area and Sustainability Occasion: Hines Family Foundation (opens in new tab), in partnerships with the Atlanta College Consortium Knowledge Science Initiative, and the NASA Georgia Area Grant Consortium at Georgia Tech, will host “From STEM To Esteem: Area-motived Instruments and Methods to Allow the twenty first Century Underrepresented Workforce.” The occasion in Atlanta goals to extend the participation of Black and Traditionally Black Faculty and College knowledge scientists within the space and sustainability industries.
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