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Augmented reality space gallery
Put a Saturn V in your garden, the Perseverance rover in your living room and the James Webb telescope on your desk. See 13 real NASA 3D models in your room, at real size, through your phone’s camera.
Rockets, the space station, telescopes, the Mars rover and helicopter, the lunar module, planetary probes and an astronaut. All are real models published by NASA.
3D and AR
Choose a model
Rotate and zoom the model with your finger or mouse. On a phone, tap “View in your room” to place the model in what the camera sees.
Guide
Space in your room in three steps
Augmented reality places the 3D model on top of the real scene your camera sees.
Open the page in Chrome on Android or Safari on iPhone and pick a model.
The camera opens. Move the phone slowly to scan the floor or a table.
The model settles on the surface. Walk around it, pinch to resize and rotate it.
Requirements: an ARCore-capable Android phone with Google Play Services for AR, or an iPhone or iPad on iOS 12 or later. Models are placed at real size; pinch to shrink large ones.
Explore rockets stage by stage in the 3D rocket viewer and follow satellites live on the 3D satellite globe.
- 3D models: NASA 3D Resources (github.com/nasa/NASA-3D-Resources), free to use under NASA’s media guidelines.
- Viewer: Google model-viewer (Apache 2.0).
- Mission facts: NASA mission pages.
Last updated: 2 November 2026