IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ FIRST

A Note to Parents

Children ask amazing questions. Why is the Sun so hot? What would happen if it disappeared? Space Mission turns those questions into games, so your child learns real space science while having fun. It suits ages 8 to 12, and the Cadet rank makes it easy for younger children aged 6 to 8.

How it works

• Each mission matches a chapter of A Billion Whys: Space, starting with the Sun.
• Every mission has 4 games: a quiz, a word find, a memory match and a jigsaw. Finishing all 4 earns a mission patch: bronze at Cadet, silver at Pilot and gold at Commander. Each patch unlocks the next mission. After all 14 missions, children earn the Commander of the Solar System award and can make a printable certificate with their name.
• Mission 1 is free to play straight away. Opening Missions 2 to 14 is also completely free: a grown-up simply enters their email address once (behind a quick grown-ups check). There is no charge and no payment details are ever asked for. You'll get a short email from Cooper Crewe to confirm, and you can unsubscribe at any time. We never ask for your child's name or details, and the name typed on the certificate stays on this device.
• Space Mission automatically uses US or UK and Australian spelling to match your device. The printed book uses US spelling.
  🇺🇸 US spelling🇦🇺 🇬🇧 UK and Australian
• Each mission's jigsaw uses a picture from that chapter of the book, and the finished puzzle reveals the matching fact. Every finished jigsaw is saved in My Jigsaw Collection on the first page, where it can be played again any time.
• Peek inside the book lets you and your child flip through real pages from each chapter.
• After every quiz question, your child sees the full answer from the book, whether they got it right or wrong. Wrong answers are part of learning, so the app always responds kindly.

Choosing a rank

• Cadet (ages 6 to 8): short, simple questions with 2 picture answers. Easy words in the word find, simple picture matching and jigsaws with fewer pieces. Every fact comes from the book, just in simpler words.
• Pilot (ages 8 and up): the book's own questions and answers, with 4 choices, picture to word matching and bigger jigsaws.
• Commander (ages 10 and up): a ⚡ speed bonus for answering within 20 seconds (with no penalty for taking longer), matching clues to real facts from the book, and the biggest jigsaws with no picture to help.

Tap the 🔊 buttons to have questions and instructions read aloud for early readers. Nothing is read aloud unless you tap.

Safe and simple

• No ads and no in-app purchases.
• No sign up, and no personal information is asked for.
• Progress is saved only on the device your child plays on.
• The link to the book sits behind a grown-ups only question.

Play it like an app

Save it to your home screen so Space Mission gets its own icon and opens like an app:

• iPhone or iPad: open this page in Safari, tap the Share button, then tap Add to Home Screen.
• Android phones and tablets (Samsung, Google Pixel and others) in Chrome: tap the three dots ⋮ at the top right, then tap Add to Home screen (it may say Install app).
• Samsung Internet: tap the menu ☰ at the bottom, then Add page to, then Home screen.

For a more natural reading voice, the 🔊 buttons use your device's own voice:

• iPhone or iPad: go to Settings, Accessibility, Spoken Content, Voices, English and download an Enhanced or Premium voice.
• Android phones and tablets: go to Settings, then search for Text-to-speech. Choose Speech Services by Google as the engine, then tap the settings icon beside it to download a high quality English voice. (Menu names vary a little between phones.)

If the game is quiet: on an iPhone or iPad, check the device is not on silent. On an Android phone or tablet, press the volume up button while the game is open, because game sounds use the media volume.

Starting again

Children can replay any game at any time. To clear all progress and start fresh (for example, for a new child on the same device), tap below. This removes all stars, patches, unlocked missions and finished jigsaws on this device.

Keep the curiosity going

Talk about the facts together. Ask your child which answer surprised them most, or go outside together and watch how your shadows change length during the day. New missions for the planets, stars, black holes and more are on the way.

Happy exploring!
Cooper Crewe