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  • Artemis Generation

    Like many of you, we’ve been following the crew of Integrity aboard Artemis II. Yesterday they completed their lunar flyby and are now heading back to our home world. As a child of the Apollo era, I have been running the NASA live feed in the background near 24/7 – to be as close in…

  • ExoLab-13: Mission MushVroom !

    We’re absolutely delighted to bring you the next ExoLab experience: Mission MushVroom. ExoLab-13 marks a major departure from our usual missions. We’ve seized a rare and historic opportunity to ride along with a private astronaut crew to achieve something no other humans had ever done: a unique orbital trajectory that flew over the Earth’s poles.…

  • Prepare Your Students for CAST Success

    As California incorporates science into the Education Dashboard and prepares for CAST assessments, we’re offering an essential resource for your educators: the Science Dashboard. Developed by educators through a partnership between Magnitude and Fizzics Education, this comprehensive digital platform is specifically aligned with CAST requirements for Grades 5 and 8, featuring: 250+ experiments with worksheets…

  • High Altitude Balloons Return to Magnitude.io!

    After a three-year hiatus, magnitude.io/ is relaunching our atmospheric balloon program! Tomorrow, we'll assist Waverly Elementary School in Stockton with their 6th grade stratospheric mission, ascending over 100,000 feet. You will be able to track the balloon as it travels down California’s Central Valley on April 29, 2025 after 11:00 am Pacific time at https://aprs.fi…

  • Magnitude Abstracts Accepted to IAC 2025

    We’re proud to announce that three of our abstracts have been accepted for presentation at the prestigious International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Sydney this year: “Seeds of Discovery: ExoLab’s Global Inquiry Pedagogy Connecting K-12 Students with Space Research” – Showcasing how our ExoLab program has engaged 24,500+ students and 1,400+ teachers across 15 countries through…

  • ExoLab arrives at Purdue!

                    ExoLab is safely back on Earth and on its way to Purdue University for post flight research! Missed out on ExoLab-11, or want to run with us again? Come join us for ExoLab REPLAY! Bring your students right to the very edge of discovery with a microgravity…

  • SpaceX-31 Return to Earth

    The SpaceX and ISS teams met to review current weather conditions across splashdown sites for the 12/15 undock opportunity. We remain outside our flight rule limits on all sites, so the team has waived the 12/15 undock opportunity. We will proceed towards a U-24hr Wx Brief for the Monday 12/16 1600 UTC (1000 CT) opportunity.…

  • Australia’s Simple Seeds joins ExoLab-11 [T-7 days]

    Ben Newsome from Fizzics Education, chats with Ted Tagami on Australia joining the ExoLab-11 mission. With support from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Plants in Space, SARDI Australian Pastures Genebank, and AVAchallenge.org, students across Australia will upcycle a 2L soda bottle – the same volume of our ExoLab – to create an analog equivalent.…

  • What is the nature of a plant?

    Wu wei: effortless effort. Playing with Anthropic’s 3.5 Sonnet: create a short discourse on “the nature of a plant” in the mindset of Alan Watts: “A plant is not so much a thing as it is a process – a flowing, growing manifestation of the universe exploring itself. Its roots reach deep into the earth,…

  • Plants for Space Launch Magnitude.io’s “Simple Seeds” Program on AVAchallenge.org

    Plants for Space and magnitude.io/ Partner to Bring Space-Based Plant Experiments to Australian Classrooms ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space and magnitude.io/ are excited to announce the launch of their Simple Seeds program, a groundbreaking initiative that will allow students across Australia to participate in real space-based plant experiments. This innovative program will…