Coming soon · for kids ages 7–12
Run a Moon base. Learn how real missions work.
Galaxya.Space is turning real space data into missions where every choice has a cost. Meet Manny, your mission companion, and learn why astronauts plan ahead.
Coming soon: our first mission, The Shadow Window. How will your base stay powered through a long lunar night?
A peek at a mission
Training example: a teaching model, not a real mission and not real measurements
Stage 2 of 5. Your base has 13 power units in its battery and 2 science points. The sun is shining now, but the next two stages will be dark. Every stage, the base needs 4 units just to keep running. Stage 5 brings the sun back.
The rules here: sunshine adds 8 units. The lab costs 3 units and gives 2 science points. The repair costs 2 units.
What will you do this stage?
Plan A: use the lab and do the repair
- Battery left: 12 units
- Science points: 4
You finish more science early, but you head into the dark with less spare power.
Plan B: do only the repair
- Battery left: 15 units
- Science points: 2
You keep more spare power for the dark, but the lab work has to wait until later.
Both plans can work. More science now means less power later. In our finished missions, Manny will ask you to predict what happens next, then you’ll run the stage and explain what changed.
What kids will learn
- Predict: think ahead before you see the answer.
- Think about costs: power, time and supplies are limited, so you can’t do everything.
- Explain: say why you chose a plan, and what changed.
- Real data: missions are being designed around open space data, such as pictures of the Moon and space weather reports. Each mission will show where its numbers come from, and will say so when it uses a saved example instead of live data.
How a mission works
Every mission will follow the same four steps.
Look
Start with a real space picture or number.
Predict
Guess what will happen next, before you see the answer.
Decide
Pick a plan. Each choice costs power, time or supplies.
Explain
See what changed and say why. Then try a new problem.
Meet Manny, your mission companion
Manny is a curious, clever manatee astronaut. He’ll point out details in real space pictures, ask what you think will happen, and cheer for every try.
- He’ll give hints, never the answer.
- He’ll help you check your plan before you commit.
- He’ll help you explain what happened, even when it doesn’t go your way.
For grown-ups
Galaxya.Space is for children ages 7 to 12 and the adults who learn with them. It’s built to need very little from you.
- No accounts for kids. We don’t ask for names, schools or birth dates.
- No ads and no cookies on this page.
- Reading help, audio and reduced motion are planned as options, not extras.
- Read our privacy notice.
This page is the front door. The missions are still being built.
Tell us what you’d like to see
Families and teachers: your ideas shape the first missions.