Museum & science center residencies

A flight deck on your floor.
Evidence in your funder report.

A residency brings a starship bridge, live crew missions for grades 5 to 12, and the Mission Analysis System to your museum for a week or more. Your school pipeline flies real missions. Your education team gets behavioral evidence worth reporting.

124 students, 21 crews
Flown in a single delivery day, two bridges running
Turn-key delivery
Equipment, operators, insurance, and reporting handled by us
Grant-cycle friendly
Deliverables and documentation shaped around your funder deadlines
Why museums book residencies

Your field trips count heads. A residency shows what changed.

Museums and science centers carry aerospace and STEM education mandates, and funders increasingly ask for outcomes rather than attendance. A gallery visit counts heads. A crew mission produces role labeled evidence of how students communicated, decided, and coordinated under pressure.

A residency gives your education department a program that fills school group calendars, differentiates your institution from every traveling exhibit on the circuit, and hands your development team reporting language written from actual student behavior.

Built for education directors

You know your grant cycles, your school partners, and your floor. We shape the residency around all three, and we write the deliverables your funder documentation actually needs.

Your brand, front and center

The bridge lives on your floor, under your banner, as your program. We operate it. Your visitors remember it happened at your museum.

What a residency looks like

From a single week to a founding program.

SHAPE 01

Mission Week

One bridge on your floor for a week. School group mission blocks by day, with capacity for member and public events. A concentrated proof of what the program does for your pipeline.

SHAPE 02

Extended Residency

Multi week, single or two bridge. Deeper school partnerships, repeat cohorts, and enough mission volume to show patterns across your service area, not just single visits.

SHAPE 03

Founding Residency

A flagship multi week program with two bridges, educator sessions for your school partners, and program level reporting built for your board and your funders. Shaped with your team from the first call.

Every residency is scoped to your calendar, your space, and your grant deliverables. Pricing follows the shape, so the first step is a conversation, not a rate card.

The partnership

We handle the hard parts.

What we bring

  • Bridge hardware, consoles, lighting, sound, and the full transformation kit
  • Trained operators for every mission block
  • The Mission Analysis System and all reporting
  • Insurance certificates naming your institution
  • Consent and data custody workflows for minors, aligned to your state's student privacy requirements
  • Program level reporting language for your funders and board

What you provide

  • About a 20 by 20 foot space per bridge, with standard power
  • Your school group and visitor pipeline
  • A scheduling contact on your education team
  • Your marketing channels, with assets supplied by us

All audio and telemetry processing happens locally on our equipment inside your building. No student data leaves your site.

The evidence

What your development team gets to write.

Every crew that flies produces a role labeled performance report. Across a residency, those reports add up to a program story. How many students flew, what coordination looked like across cohorts, and the moments worth quoting, with every claim carrying a confidence flag.

Growth and comparison statements ship with directional caveats, which is exactly why the reporting survives a skeptical program officer.

RESIDENCY BRIEF // COHORT PATTERN

Across the week's crews, communication narrowed under pressure and recovered when captains repeated station reports back to the bridge. Crews that established a reporting rhythm in the pre brief held coordination longest during the casualty sequence.

CONFIDENCE: MODERATE // DIRECTIONAL, MULTI-CREW PATTERN

Illustrative excerpt from a composite residency brief.

Put a starship on your floor.

Bring your calendar and your grant deadlines. We will bring a residency shape that fits both.

Call 512.997.8091 or email info@mobilespaceadventures.org