Space Center University

Come behind the scenes with Space Center U®, the ultimate educational experience, and get a taste of space exploration! Space Center U is a challenging multi-day program offered year-round to individuals and groups. The program promotes teamwork, problem solving, communication and engineering solutions to space-related situations. It is designed to develop and improve critical thinking skills, fiscal responsibility, creativity and the drive to be successful.

Immersing students in authentic learning opportunities tied to NASA missions, Space Center U offers a high level of STEM topics applied to real-world and space-related experiences. Space Center University students will discover areas such as robotics, rocketry, thermal protection systems and space habitats.

Participants will be inspired as they engineer solutions to space-related challenges, collaborate to find solutions, and go behind the scenes at NASA Johnson Space Center and the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, the world’s largest underwater training facility. The program culminates with a graduation ceremony celebrating the students’ accomplishments and an exclusive Brunch with an Astronaut.

Participants meet daily, Monday through Friday, at Space Center Houston from 8 a.m.-4 p.m.