World Space Week 2025
04 October 2025 - 10 October 2025
Region(s): Nationwide
Type(s): promotion
World Space Week is a United Nations declared celebration of space held annually, every 4–10 October. The theme for 2025 is Living in Space – exploring humanity’s journey beyond Earth. As we stand on the cusp of permanent space habitation, this year’s celebration examines the technologies, innovations and human adaptations necessary for thriving in extraterrestrial environments.
Space stations, lunar bases, and Mars settlements are no longer distant dreams. They represent active engineering challenges requiring breakthrough solutions in life support systems, closed-loop agriculture, radiation protection, and psychological wellness. The infrastructure developed today will determine whether future generations can call space their home.
This year’s events will explore sustainable space habitation while inspiring the next generation of engineers, scientists, and explorers. Students worldwide will discover how biology, physics, engineering, and human psychology converge to solve life beyond Earth.
For more information: www.worldspaceweek.org.
For New Zealand events see: www.worldspaceweek.org/nations/new-zealand or https://worldspaceweek.org.nz.
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Related content
Our article Aotearoa New Zealand in space introduces a suite of space resources – though created for the middle years – there’s something for everyone. Aotearoa in space – a context for learning provides curriculum information and other pedagogical information to help you get started. This recorded webinar gives a helpful overview of the resources that make up part of the Aotearoa and space content.
Innovative thinking is behind a space research lab named LUCY that is so tiny it can fit in your hand. LUCY sits inside a very small satellite called a CubeSat and is testing the technology that may one day help us grow food on Mars!
See also these articles that introduce other collections of handy resources:
Space revealed – discover the secret lives of planets, stars and galaxies
Investigating satellites – learn about natural and artificial satellites
Investigating rockets – taking science and technology to new heights
For more space related content browse the huge range of resources under these topics: Astronomy, Satellites or Rockets.
Try the activity Is anything out there? – it asks students to consider evidence for life and examine data to decide on the likelihood of life on certain extrasolar planets.
Useful links
See these websites for New Zealand-based research and resources: