The Space Science Craze: An Opportunity for Education in Astronomy

There is undoubtedly the race towards the domination of space and competition for space exploration which is becoming more and more multipolar after having long been dominated by only two nations. Interest is therefore growing among young people and the general public all over the world. We propose in this presentation, to demonstrate how we can in the future, introduce the space sciences in education in general and in school programs in particular. The need is universal in nature: we all have the same sky! But the demand is even greater for developing countries which have not yet invested in space sciences. An ambitious program combining space studies and astrophysics can be designed and oriented towards these targets, making these themes even more than what they are at the moment, more inclusive in the broad sense of this term. The recent establishment of the IAU-CPS center, as projects of this scale often are, has an important educational component. We then also propose to use this initiative which combines the problem of satellite constellations and their harmful effects as needed. growing to invent ingenious solutions to deal with it. Well-trained young people represent a potential to be exploited in this direction.

Some ideas will be presented in this presentation in order to broaden the debate among the community of educators from schoolchildren, academics and researchers.