Uploaded June 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Design and build a device that can take a core sample from a potato "asteroid."

NASA and DESIGN SQUAD NATION team up to inspire a new generation of engineers. This guide has six space-based hands-on challenges for school and afterschool programs, grades 4-8.

For more from the Design Squad Nation & NASA guide, Mission: Solar System, go to: pbskids.org/designsquad/parentseducators/guides/mission_solar_system.html

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