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Space Academy

Cadet training, moon landings and galaxy maps for young explorers who want to know what is out there.

Ages 5–9 · 20 story worlds

How the story works

Real space science drives the plot: the crew only reaches the station if they solve the fuel, gravity or orbit problem. Facts stay accurate, wonder stays enormous, and aliens are always friendly imagination rather than false science.

Learning objectives

  • · The planets and the solar system
  • · Stars, moons and constellations
  • · How rockets and orbits work
  • · Gravity and space conditions
  • · Observation and scientific thinking
  • · Teamwork under pressure

Curriculum alignment

  • Earth & Space Science
  • STEM Foundations
  • Physics Basics

Key skills: Astronomy, Scientific thinking, Problem solving, Teamwork, Curiosity

What parents get with every story

Discussion questions

  • “Which planet would you most want to visit, and why?”
  • “What problem did the crew solve together?”
  • “What is the strangest thing we learned about space?”

Conversation prompts

  • “Let's look out of the window tonight and find one thing in the sky.”
  • “If you commanded a mission, who would be on your crew?”

Optional follow-up activity

Go outside after dark and find the Moon or one bright star together, then draw what you saw.

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