The NASA Langley's Center for Distance Learning® draws on NASA's extensive resources to develop educational programs that raise the public's awareness of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and their relation to our everyday world. The Mad Science Group® is the world's leading provider of science enrichment programs for elementary school-aged children. Mad Science is on a mission to spark the imagination of children everywhere with programs that instill a clear understanding of what science is really about and how it affects the world around us. Working together with common goals, Mad Science and the NASA Langley Center for Distance Learning have created the NASA Academy of Future Space Explorers, an unparalleled after-school program experience that brings the excitement and wonder of NASA's activities directly to children.

“We are so excited about working with Mad Science. Like us, Mad Science is on a mission to spark the imagination and curiosity of children everywhere. By providing [children] with fun, interactive and challenging educational programs, Mad Science instills a clear understanding what science is really about, and how it affects our lives every day. Mad Science and the NASA Langley Center for Distance Learning [are] working together to inspire the next generation of explorers.” Jennifer Pulley,
Host of NASA Connect
NASA Langley Center for Distance Learning