Asteroid Landers

Mining asteroids has been a popular topic this week, especially since billionaire investors announced they were embarking on an ambitious goal of mining the natural resources found on asteroids.

This is nothing new for Girlstart participants, who engineered their own asteroid landers last month during our Girls In STEM Conference, in collaboration with the NASA Human Health & Performance Center. 

During Girlstart's annual Girls In STEM Conference the girls were challenged with the 1st All-Girl Mission to create a vehicle to land and collect minerals on an asteroid. Using the materials included in their bags they were to build a vehicle that could grab onto the asteroid’s surface and attach an object that could collect minerals from the asteroid. Check out all the creative and unique asteroid landers the girls made! Click HERE to download the worksheet for creating your own asteroid lander.