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Stuck in space

On June 5th 2024 two NASA astronauts travelled to the International Space Station for an eight-day mission. The pair are stuck in space for around eight months after their spacecraft experienced problems and returned to Earth unmanned.

Collage of pages from the “Stuck in space” teaching resource showing the cover and lesson plan

Published 13 September 2024

This lesson is more than a year old. Please check the facts before teaching to ensure they are up-to-date and still correct.

About this lesson

Use this one-hour lesson to help your students:

  • Discuss what it might be like to be stuck in space
  • Form opinions about the news story by considering a range of perspectives
  • Generate ideas for how the situation could be improved

This lesson develops the following skill:

  • Creativity

    Getting started:
    Imagining and generating ideas

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