Flying with NASA

The internet allows high quality and free scientific content to be available anywhere on the planet. Whether it's propaganda for future missions or reporting results of already accomplished ones, the american space agency NASA and the european one ESA make and release several didactic videos about space exploration and astrophysics. The videos aim the general public and have detailed and well crafted animations about the physical concepts studied on the missions. The outreach project called "Flying with NASA" aims to bring the debate of these topics to the high schools of the small city Jataí in central Brazil through the presentation of the NASA videos (Youtube channels such as Hubble Space Telescope, NASA Gorddard, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Spitzer among others). Subtitles translated into Portuguese by users and also by ourselves allow students to overcome the language barrier. Several topics were addressed such as solar system, space telescopes, Sun, Jupter, Saturn and stars. The most successful topics were time travel, black hole, wormhole, universe size, and existence of life outside Earth. The visual appeal of videos is crucial in attracting the students' interest.