NASA推出宇航員在線課程大綱

Who hasn't dreamt of escaping to the stars? Especially now, with most of us confined to limited spaces and steeped in tragic news.

誰不曾夢想過逃到星星上去？尤其是現在，我們大多數人被限制在有限的空間裏，聽到的都是悲慘的消息。

NASA and the ISS National Lab are ready to help. They've developed a range of adventurous programs and activities for all the children stuck in home lockdown, including a training program to become a home astronaut, build a hovercraft, launch rockets, and many more.

美國國家航空航天局和國際空間站美國國家實驗室準備要幫我們這個忙。他們爲被疫情困在家中的孩子們開發了一系列冒險項目和活動，其中有一個訓練項目，讓你在家就可以當宇航員、做氣墊船、發射火箭等。

"Astronauts see the world from space and want to share its beauty and its wholeness," explained ISS National Lab education manager Dan Barstow.

國際空間站美國國家實驗室教育管理人員Dan Barstow解釋說：“宇航員是從太空看地球的，想跟大家分享地球的全貌和美。”

"They do medical experiments to search for cures, and they help young people see the power of the mysterious Universe to pull us to explore."

“他們會做醫學實驗尋找療法，幫助年輕人看到神祕宇宙的力量，吸引我們去探索。”

Now children can follow their lead, with free educational activities that equip parents to help Students explore science subjects, from life sciences and human health to robotics, maths and physics - complete with specific guides for kindergarten through to year 12.

現在孩子們可以效仿，還有免費的教育活動使父母可以幫助學生探索科學，包括生命科學、人類健康、機器人學、數學和物理，爲幼兒園到12年級的學生提供具體指導。

Students can take part in experiments like astronauts do on the International Space Station, and compare the results to those from space.

學生可以像國際空間站上的宇航員一樣做實驗，然後將實驗結果和太空中的實驗進行對比。

For example, observing microgravity using simple materials to demonstrate how astronauts float in space - not due to lack of gravity, but because they are constantly falling towards Earth.

比如，利用簡單材料觀察微重力來證明宇航員是如何漂浮在太空中的，不是因爲沒有重力，而是因爲他們不時地會落向地球。

Kids can also contribute to science in progress by joining citizen science projects, like combing through images to search for new brown dwarfs and planets, using satellite data to help biologists track penguin populations, and training a computer to think like a scientist for future Mars missions.

孩子們也可以通過參與公民科學項目爲正在進行中的科學項目做貢獻，如通過圖像搜索新的褐矮星和行星、利用衛星數據幫助生物學家追蹤企鵝種羣，還能訓練計算機像科學家一樣思考，以便未來參與火星任務。

Until April 22, students can even help choose which plant astronauts will next grow in space. The plan is for SpaceX's October cargo resupply mission to provide astronauts with a spacefaring legume - but which legume has yet to be decided. You can join team Alfalfa, Mungbean, or Lentil, and help scientists work out which plant is the best suited for living on the ISS.

在4月22日之前，學生甚至可以幫助宇航員選擇下一批在太空要種植的植物。該計劃是針對SpaceX十月份的貨物補給任務的，要爲宇航員提供航天豆科植物，但還沒有選好要種哪種。你可以加入苜蓿團隊、綠豆團隊或扁豆團隊，幫助科學家確定哪種植物最適合在國際空間站生存。