Earn Merit Badges with This Project!
Turn Your Apollo 13 Experience into Merit Badge Progress
🎯 You Just Experienced Real Code!
This entire Apollo 13 interactive experience is built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - the same technologies professional developers use every day!
And the best part? The code is open source (MIT License) - you can view it, learn from it, modify it, and use it to earn merit badges!
This Project Helps You Earn THREE Merit Badges! 🏆
💻 Programming Merit Badge
✅ Requirements You Can Complete:
- Requirement 4c: Study open source software (this project uses MIT License!)
- Requirement 5: Use this as one of your THREE programming projects - modify the code!
- General Knowledge: Learn web development with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Careers: Explore software engineering and web development
🌐 Digital Technology Merit Badge
✅ Requirements You Can Complete:
- Requirement 3c: This IS a website! (36 HTML pages with images and navigation)
- Requirement 4a: Learn about intellectual property (copyright, licensing)
- Requirement 4b: Understand when you can use/modify open source software
🚀 Space Exploration Merit Badge
✅ Requirements You Can Complete:
- Requirement 1: Historical reasons for space exploration
- Requirement 2: Space pioneers - Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, Fred Haise, John Aaron
- Requirement 5a: Discuss Apollo 13 as a historic crewed mission
- Requirement 7: Explore NASA careers (engineers, flight controllers, astronauts)
🚀 How to Get Started
Talk to Your Merit Badge Counselor
Show them this page and discuss which merit badge(s) you want to work on. Get approval to use this project for the requirements listed above.
View the Code on GitHub
The entire source code is available for free! Click the button below to see how everything works.
📖 View Code on GitHub →Download and Experiment
Download the code to your computer. Try making changes - add features, fix bugs, or create your own version for a different space mission!
Show Your Work to Your Counselor
Demonstrate what you learned and any modifications you made. Discuss how the code works and what you discovered!
📚 What You'll Learn
HTML
How websites are structured with headings, paragraphs, links, and images
CSS
How to make websites look good with colors, fonts, layouts, and responsive design
JavaScript
How to make websites interactive with decisions, scoring, and progress tracking
localStorage
How websites remember your choices even after you close the browser
GitHub
How developers share code, collaborate, and build projects together
Open Source
Why sharing code helps everyone learn and build better things together
🔧 Technical Details
36
Interactive HTML Pages
~1,600
Lines of Code
10
Decision Points with Scoring
0
Dependencies (Pure HTML/CSS/JS!)
License: MIT (Open Source)
Free to use, modify, learn from, and share!
🌟 You Can Build Things Like This!
Every website, app, and game you use was built by people who started exactly where you are now - curious and willing to learn.
The Apollo 13 mission succeeded because engineers learned by doing, experimented, and never gave up.
Now it's your turn! 🚀
Star the repository • Fork it • Make it your own!
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Code available under MIT License. NASA content is public domain.