For information about solar system education, visit our NASA Education Centers page. For a complete look at NASA's efforts to 'inspire the next generation of explorers' across all of its strategic enterprises, visit the NASA headquarters Education Program website.

It's simple. Your students are our future. As NASA Administrator Sean O"Keefe noted in his April 12, 2002 Vision for NASA address:

"Our renewed focus on education means not only inspiring our youth but also providing educators with the tools they need to teach math and science and to improve the country's scientific literacy-and we have those tools available today. We just need to be more creative in how to make them available to inspire our youngest generation to pursue these inquiries.

"In short, we want to make science and discovery, exploration and research, cool-exciting for kids to want to learn more and draw on natural human inquisitiveness. And if we don't motivate our youngest generation now-in kindergarten and through high school-there is little prospect this generation will choose to pursue scientific disciplines later."

NASA has made education an essential part of its mission since the agency was founded in 1958. That commitment continues today. The efforts for the next few years are outlined in the NASA Implementation Plan for Education.