The “global space economy” refers to pretty much everything having to do with human progress through space, including exploration, research, management, and use. It also generates hundreds of billions of dollars every year.
You may not have heard the term “global space economy,” but you’ve probably heard of at least two of the big players: Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. As founders of Blue Origin and SpaceX, their companies are estimated to be worth $100 billion and $1.8 trillion, respectively. If you took 1.8 trillion standard dollar bills end-to-end, it would stretch 100 million miles — more than the distance from the Earth to the Sun! Imagine walking to the Sun on a bridge made of money! You couldn’t, because of all of the “zero gravity.” Your feet would also get very tired. There’s also no oxygen. But we know all of this because of how much we’ve studied space!
So why spend so much time and money on the space industry, which has expanded massively in the last few decades? Don’t only a few select astronauts go to space? Shouldn’t we be focusing on Earth? Well, what we learn in space has a big impact on what we do on the ground. Our findings from space show up as the GPS on our phones, in ships navigating the oceans, even as farmers using satellite photography to plan their crops.
There’s no sign of slowing down on the space front — the UK is focusing on small satellites, America is hoping to put astronauts back on the moon by 2028, and China is planning its own lunar landing by 2030. These explorations could provide valuable minerals, insight to getting past the Moon (like to Mars), and open up space tourism opportunities.
Football is thousands of years old, but who says there's no room for a little new technology? And there's no better place to explore the advancements in football tech than FIFA’s global headquarters in Zurich, where the research team has been paying special attention to the MVP of every match: the football itself.
Meet the Trionda ball. It may look like a standard football, until you open it up to reveal a sensor inside the ball. It’s synced to a computer, and tracks the ball’s behavior on a graph that shows when contact is made with the ball — light touches are small peaks, hard hits are big spikes. This will make it easier to see if a player has actually touched the ball, which is sometimes hard to determine with the naked eye.
For those who are always squinting to watch those teeny tiny players on that giant field, FIFA is also introducing a ref cam. The head-mounted technology lets broadcasters record first-person footage, so spectators can see the game from the referee’s point of view. This means they can get an on-field perspective of the action, even if means an up-close look of players getting mad at the refs! Nothing more authentic than that!
Are you watching the 2026 World Cup?! We hope so, because it’s a big one. The biggest one, actually. It’s the first with three countries co-hosting (Canada, the U.S., and Mexico), and it’s been expanded to 48 teams (from 32).
But the size of the tournament isn’t where the differences end, not by a long shot! This year, the World Cup is also introducing new rules, like a possible red card for players covering their mouths! If you gasped and covered your own mouth, don’t worry. First because you’re probably not playing in the World Cup (yet), but also because this penalty is only given to players who are being confrontational.
Other additions include the VAR (Video Assistant Referee) getting the power to check second yellow cards and corners, a 5-second countdown on goal kicks and throw-ins, and a rule that players being subbed will have just 10 seconds to leave the pitch. No time for dilly dallying, we’ve got 16 more teams to watch this year!
Play this fun Go Jetters dominoes game (featuring famous world landmarks) with a friend! Here's how to play:
- Deal five dominoes to each player, then place an extra one face-up in front of you.
- Place the remaining cards face-down in a pile.
- Take turns looking at your dominoes and if one matches a picture on the end of the sequence, place it down beside them. If none of your dominoes match, take another from the pile.
- The winner is the first player to put down all of their dominoes.
Can you zoom to the moon with the Numberblocks? Here's how to play:
- Cut out your rocket counters with a grown-up. Place them at the start. The player who throws the highest number on the die goes first.
- Take turns to roll the die and move around the board. The first person to reach the moon is the winner!
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
Grab a friend to play this game. Who will finish first? Choose who is player 1 and who is player 2. Count down
from 10 to one, then shout, "Go!" Answer all the questions as quickly as you can! Whoever gets to the
finish first wins! Remember that squares are special rectangles.
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
It's the big game! Who's on Eleven's team? Color him in along with in his teammates One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, and Ten. How many players are on the field. Count them!
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
Ready for lift-off? Roll a die and play a number coloring game. Here's how it works:
- Find a friend, a die. and coloring pencils. Choose who will be player 1 and who will be player 2.
- Take it in turns to throw the die. Color the parts of the picture that contain the number you roll (use the color key to help you). If they’re already colored in, miss a turn.
- The first player to color their picture is the winner!
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
Roll the die to color this space scene! Here's how to play:
- Find a friend and a die to roll. Choose who will be player 1 and who will be player 2.
- Take turns throwing the die. Color the parts of the picture that contain the number you roll. If they’re already colored in, miss a turn.
- The first player to color their picture is the winner!
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
It’s chutes and ladders... but not as you know it, kiddo! This is a game for two or more players. Here's how to play:
- Find a die and use pennies as counters.
- Move around the board doing the tasks as you go. Too easy.
- Bounce up when you land on an inflatable and slide down the pool noodles (just like Chutes & Ladders). The first player to 100 is the winner!
It's the holiday season! Grab a pal and play this fun game. Here's how:
- This is a game for two players. Snip out the counters and presents. Place your counters at the start. Each player begins with five presents.
- Take turns to roll a die and move around the board. If you land on a GIVE space, give the other player that many presents.
- If you land on a GRAB space, the other player must give you that number of presents.
- The game ends when both players cross the finish line. The winner is the player with the most presents!
Snip out these dominoes and grab a mate to play this fun matching game! Grab a grown-up and snip out along the dashed lines only. To play:
- Share the dominoes evenly with your grown-up or a friend. The first player puts any domino down on a table.
- The second player needs to try and put a domino next to it that matches one side of the other player's domino.
- If you don't have a matching domino, miss a turn. The first one to lay down all their dominoes is the winner!
The “global space economy” refers to pretty much everything having to do with human progress through space, including exploration, research, management, and use. It also generates hundreds of billions of dollars every year.
You may not have heard the term “global space economy,” but you’ve probably heard of at least two of the big players: Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. As founders of Blue Origin and SpaceX, their companies are estimated to be worth $100 billion and $1.8 trillion, respectively. If you took 1.8 trillion standard dollar bills end-to-end, it would stretch 100 million miles — more than the distance from the Earth to the Sun! Imagine walking to the Sun on a bridge made of money! You couldn’t, because of all of the “zero gravity.” Your feet would also get very tired. There’s also no oxygen. But we know all of this because of how much we’ve studied space!
So why spend so much time and money on the space industry, which has expanded massively in the last few decades? Don’t only a few select astronauts go to space? Shouldn’t we be focusing on Earth? Well, what we learn in space has a big impact on what we do on the ground. Our findings from space show up as the GPS on our phones, in ships navigating the oceans, even as farmers using satellite photography to plan their crops.
There’s no sign of slowing down on the space front — the UK is focusing on small satellites, America is hoping to put astronauts back on the moon by 2028, and China is planning its own lunar landing by 2030. These explorations could provide valuable minerals, insight to getting past the Moon (like to Mars), and open up space tourism opportunities.
Football is thousands of years old, but who says there's no room for a little new technology? And there's no better place to explore the advancements in football tech than FIFA’s global headquarters in Zurich, where the research team has been paying special attention to the MVP of every match: the football itself.
Meet the Trionda ball. It may look like a standard football, until you open it up to reveal a sensor inside the ball. It’s synced to a computer, and tracks the ball’s behavior on a graph that shows when contact is made with the ball — light touches are small peaks, hard hits are big spikes. This will make it easier to see if a player has actually touched the ball, which is sometimes hard to determine with the naked eye.
For those who are always squinting to watch those teeny tiny players on that giant field, FIFA is also introducing a ref cam. The head-mounted technology lets broadcasters record first-person footage, so spectators can see the game from the referee’s point of view. This means they can get an on-field perspective of the action, even if means an up-close look of players getting mad at the refs! Nothing more authentic than that!
Are you watching the 2026 World Cup?! We hope so, because it’s a big one. The biggest one, actually. It’s the first with three countries co-hosting (Canada, the U.S., and Mexico), and it’s been expanded to 48 teams (from 32).
But the size of the tournament isn’t where the differences end, not by a long shot! This year, the World Cup is also introducing new rules, like a possible red card for players covering their mouths! If you gasped and covered your own mouth, don’t worry. First because you’re probably not playing in the World Cup (yet), but also because this penalty is only given to players who are being confrontational.
Other additions include the VAR (Video Assistant Referee) getting the power to check second yellow cards and corners, a 5-second countdown on goal kicks and throw-ins, and a rule that players being subbed will have just 10 seconds to leave the pitch. No time for dilly dallying, we’ve got 16 more teams to watch this year!
Play this fun Go Jetters dominoes game (featuring famous world landmarks) with a friend! Here's how to play:
- Deal five dominoes to each player, then place an extra one face-up in front of you.
- Place the remaining cards face-down in a pile.
- Take turns looking at your dominoes and if one matches a picture on the end of the sequence, place it down beside them. If none of your dominoes match, take another from the pile.
- The winner is the first player to put down all of their dominoes.
Can you zoom to the moon with the Numberblocks? Here's how to play:
- Cut out your rocket counters with a grown-up. Place them at the start. The player who throws the highest number on the die goes first.
- Take turns to roll the die and move around the board. The first person to reach the moon is the winner!
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
Grab a friend to play this game. Who will finish first? Choose who is player 1 and who is player 2. Count down
from 10 to one, then shout, "Go!" Answer all the questions as quickly as you can! Whoever gets to the
finish first wins! Remember that squares are special rectangles.
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
It's the big game! Who's on Eleven's team? Color him in along with in his teammates One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, and Ten. How many players are on the field. Count them!
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
Ready for lift-off? Roll a die and play a number coloring game. Here's how it works:
- Find a friend, a die. and coloring pencils. Choose who will be player 1 and who will be player 2.
- Take it in turns to throw the die. Color the parts of the picture that contain the number you roll (use the color key to help you). If they’re already colored in, miss a turn.
- The first player to color their picture is the winner!
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
Roll the die to color this space scene! Here's how to play:
- Find a friend and a die to roll. Choose who will be player 1 and who will be player 2.
- Take turns throwing the die. Color the parts of the picture that contain the number you roll. If they’re already colored in, miss a turn.
- The first player to color their picture is the winner!
Watch full episodes of Numberblocks on their official YouTube channel!
It’s chutes and ladders... but not as you know it, kiddo! This is a game for two or more players. Here's how to play:
- Find a die and use pennies as counters.
- Move around the board doing the tasks as you go. Too easy.
- Bounce up when you land on an inflatable and slide down the pool noodles (just like Chutes & Ladders). The first player to 100 is the winner!
It's the holiday season! Grab a pal and play this fun game. Here's how:
- This is a game for two players. Snip out the counters and presents. Place your counters at the start. Each player begins with five presents.
- Take turns to roll a die and move around the board. If you land on a GIVE space, give the other player that many presents.
- If you land on a GRAB space, the other player must give you that number of presents.
- The game ends when both players cross the finish line. The winner is the player with the most presents!
Snip out these dominoes and grab a mate to play this fun matching game! Grab a grown-up and snip out along the dashed lines only. To play:
- Share the dominoes evenly with your grown-up or a friend. The first player puts any domino down on a table.
- The second player needs to try and put a domino next to it that matches one side of the other player's domino.
- If you don't have a matching domino, miss a turn. The first one to lay down all their dominoes is the winner!