Space Exploration — Merit Badge

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Requirements

From the official BSA merit badge pamphlet — wording is paraphrased here. Confirm against the current pamphlet for sign-off.

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For the whole badge

Historical reasons

Immediate goals in terms of specific knowledge

Benefits for Earth resources, technology, and new products

International relations and cooperation

Design a collector's card about your favorite space pioneer; discuss four other pioneers

Build, launch, and recover a model rocket (NAR safety code); second launch with an objective; identify nine rocket parts (body tube, engine mount, fins, igniter, launch lug, nose cone, payload, recovery system, engine)

The law of action-reaction

How rocket engines work

How satellites stay in orbit

How satellite pictures of Earth and other planets are made and transmitted

(Do any 2 of the following)

Discuss a robotic mission and a historic crewed mission — discoveries, importance, lessons

Create a blog, website, slide show, or scrapbook about a current planetary mission

Design a robotic sample-return mission to a planet, moon, comet, or asteroid; show how it copes with the environment

(Do any one of the following)

Space shuttle or other crewed orbital vehicle (government or commercial)

International Space Station

Source of energy

How it will be constructed

Life-support system

Purpose and function

Research one space-related career (training, costs, salary, duties); discuss findings