Postcards: Send your Art to Space
The National Space Society and Blue Origin’s Club for the Future invite you to submit your artwork on a postcard that is to be sent into space aboard a Blue Origin rocket. The postcard will be returned to you after the flight in space. Please note that it may take some time for the postcard to be returned as there are no guaranteed launch dates.
Instructions – How to Send Your Postcard to Space
The National Space Society’s SpaceEdge Education Program’s Roadmap to Space Art Contest is excited to collaborate with Blue Origin’s Club For the Future Postcards to Space program. The Club for the Future will fly your postcard on a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket, then return it to you stamped “Flown in Space.”
All entrants may provide a physical postcard to fly to space.
To create a postcard, you will need the template (2 pages) provided at the link below.
You will also need a piece of 8 ½ ” x 11” heavy card stock. Do not use regular paper. The postal service will NOT allow it. You must use heavy card stock for the postcard.
The postcard you will make using this template is going to be two-sided. So it is important to use this 2-page template to create the postcard. The rectangular box on the front side of the postcard and the rectangular box on the back side are aligned.
The steps you will need to make the postcard are written on the template. However, the steps are also written below. Remember to download the template using the link above.
Step 1: Paste your contest art entry on the postcard’s BACK Side in the blank rectangular box. You will need to size your art piece to fit inside the rectangular box.
Step 2: Using a single sheet of heavy weight paper, print the two pages of this template as a single double sided sheet. Heavy weight paper for a postcard needs to be between 90 – 130 lb weight or between 215 gsm – 350 gsm.
Step 3: In the rectangular box on the front of the postcard, print your full name and your return address. Please be careful to clearly print your return address. Use the best address format for your country. In the US, the best format is shown in the example below.
First and Last Name
Street Address
City, State/Province and Postal Code
Country
Step 4: Cut out the rectangular postcard using the dashed lines as a guide.
Step 5: Place the postcard in a stamped envelope and mail it to:
National Space Society/Postcard
PO Box 236002
Cocoa, FL 32923-6002
United States of America
Note: You do not need to put a stamp on the postcard itself. Club for the Future will cover the postage cost for the return of the postcard to you.
Your contest entry will be sent to space and will then be returned to you, stamped “Flown to Space”.
If you wish to send additional postcards to space and not enter the Roadmap to Space Art Contest, visit the Postcards to Space lesson in the National Space Society’s SpacEdge Academy where you can download a postcard template and print as many as you desire. Be sure to sign-up to SpacEdge Academy where there are more than 100 space related lessons and to join NSS to stay current with more student contests, space updates, and special offers in the near future.
QUESTIONS?
If you have any questions regarding the contest, please email the NSS SpacEdge Contest Coordinator.
