How to Take Part

  1. Register your team. Registration for 2025/2026 opens 19 September 2025
  2. Plan your activities and gather materials.
  3. Complete the activities.
  4. Submit your activities online to earn steps for the mission.

Activities to Explore

  • Science: Lungs Expanding and Contracting, Make a Rocket
  • Physical Activities: Speed of Light, Astro Agility0 Course, Crew Strength Training

Mission X is a collaboration between ESA, the UK Space Agency, and the ESERO network.

Visit trainlikeanastronaut.org to find out more and get involved.

Mission X Training Videos

Get started with our Mission X training videos, covering many aspects on how to train like an astronaut.

Mission X YouTube Playlist

Other Projects

View other projects

Moon Camp

Join the Moon Camp Challenge and design a project related to space exploration. Create anything from a scientific experiment or astronaut base design to a 3D printing model or virtual reality world. Choose a topic and format that suits your team and let your creativity shine.

Climate Detectives

Are your students curious about our planet and how to protect it? Climate Detectives, a European Space Agency (ESA) project, invites students to investigate local environmental issues using tools like satellite images, climate data, or their own measurements. Through this process, students propose ways to monitor, reduce, or raise awareness of the problem, whilst also building valuable scientific and problem-solving skills.

CanSat

Discover what it takes to create a real space project from start to finish. The CanSat competition challenges students in TY and Senior Cycle to design, build, and launch a mini-satellite, all within the size of a beverage can. Registration for the 2026/2026 competition will open on 15th September 2025 – check back to register then! CanSat is a competition by the European Space Agency (ESA) for secondary school students. The challenge is to fit a satellite’s key parts—like power, sensors, and communication systems—into a beverage can. Students design, build, and launch their CanSat, collect data as it descends, and send it back to a ground station for analysis.

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