The Great Race to the Stars
Like Duolingo, but for The Great Race to the Stars. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
Free during early access · No credit card · iPhone & Android
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo turns The Great Race to the Stars into a game you actually finish. Levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that make it stick. Five minutes a day.
Where The Great Race to the Stars takes you
Travel back to a time when two superpowers competed to leave the Earth behind. Discover the brave pilots, giant rockets, and incredible inventions that changed our world forever.
- 1
How the Race Started
- Two Countries with Big Dreams
- The First Beep from Space
- Why Everyone Was Scared and Excited
- Building the First Rocket Teams
- 2
Living Things Leave the Earth
- The First Dog in Orbit
- Chimpanzees in Space Suits
- The First Human to Circle the Globe
- America's First Space Hero
- The Woman Who Flew to the Stars
- Surviving the Trip Back Home
- 3
Learning to Work in Space
- Taking the First Space Walk
- How to Park Two Ships Together
- Living in a Tiny Metal Box
- 4
The Giant Leap to the Moon
- The Most Powerful Rocket Ever Built
- A Sad Day on the Launch Pad
- The Long Journey to the Lunar Surface
- Walking on the Moon for the First Time
- Bringing Moon Rocks Back to Earth
- 5
From Rivals to Friends
- The Famous Handshake in Orbit
- Building a Home in the Sky Together
- How Space Tech Changed Your Kitchen
- What We Learned from the Race
5 sections · 22 units · 88 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
What was the primary non-scientific motivation for the superpowers to invest so heavily in space exploration?
Get it right to open this lesson and 87 more in the app.
You pick the voice
The Great Race to the Stars is taught in the The Storyteller style: every lesson is a story. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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