Make It

SUGGESTIONS

Modules: service modules, laboratories, nodes, storage modules, etc.

For the modules you can use the empty cans or the pringles tubes. To connect two cans together glue half a toilet roll in between. This makes it look as though the different modules are connected by a corridor. Use the paper and the colored felt-tip pens to decorate each of your modules and give them a name matching their use: service module? scientific laboratory? Node?

Solar Panels

Solar panels are very big, flat and long so they can catch a lot of light from the Sun. Use 15 cm of the aluminum foil and cut it into strips of 5 cm wide. Put two sticks inside with 1 cm in between and fold the aluminum round the sticks. To attach the solar panels, put a stick through the panel and the toilet roll.

Radiators

Cut two strips of white paper of 1,25 cm wide and 12,5 cm long. Fold the strips in half over the top of the stick and secure the ends with tape. The radiators should point downward.

How to Make Your Station Float

When you have fixed all the modules together, tie the string around the module in the middle so both ends are in balance and hang it up in your room. Now you can let your station float freely!

Pinhole Lamp

Build a model of Earth at night, similar to what the astronauts might see from the cupola of the ISS.

Materials

• scissors

• small box

• tape

• marker

• ruler

• thumb pin

• Earth drawing (click to access)