Supplementary figures

Figura 1S: Circular table representing the system Sun-Earth-Moon, being used during a presentation at NASTRO, inApril 2015.

Figura 2S: Solar system dynamics being explained by a NASTRO’s collaborator to high-school students in the city ofTerra Alta, in April 2012.

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Figura 3S: Pupils interacting with a solar system representation, built by NASTRO’s team with low cost material, at theUFPA Belem Campus, in November 2012.

Figura 4S: NASTRO’s seminar during a science fair in the city of Soure, located in the Marajo island, in April 2012.

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Figura 5S: NASTRO’s team exposing and explaining some rocket models and other of its equipments in the cultural fairof Tenente Rego Barros School, in November 2015.

Figura 6S: Astronomical observation performed by NASTRO’s team in the Belem UFPA Campus, in July 2015.

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Figura 7S: Photo showing the debris of a rocket, found floating in an Amazonian river, in April 2014. Photo by: TarsoSarraf.

Figura 8S: Astronomical observation promoted by NASTRO at Forte do Castelo, a famous Belem’s touristic point, duringthe supermoon and the lunar eclipse, on September 27, 2015.

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Figura 9S: Public high school students being introduced to a telescope and other optical equipment during the FirstAmazonian School on Space Sciences promoted by NASTRO and INPE, in Belem, in November 2007.

Figura 10S: Group photo taken during the Second Amazonian School on Space Sciences organized by NASTRO andINPE, in Belem, in November 2008.

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Figura 11S: Child looking at the Moon through a telescope during the astronomical observation organized in the city ofSalvaterra, in the Marajo Island, as part of the activities promoted by NASTRO in the Para State Fair of Science andTechnology, in December 2008.

Figura 12S: NASTRO’s students interacting with the Constellations Memory Game, in 2007.

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Figura 13S: Board of the Sky Hopscotch, a playful activity elaborated by NASTRO’s team, in 2006.

Figura 14S: Telescope making using low-cost material in a workshop offered by NASTRO during the 5th Fair of Science,Technology and Innovation, held at the Belem Campus of the Para State University, in October 2012.

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Figura 15S: Picture taken during a Saturday morning Astronomy class, taught by NASTRO’s collaborators, in 2013.

Figura 16S: Pupils interacting with educational models built with low cost material to explain the origin and internalstructure of the Earth, during a NASTROS’s class, in July 2013.

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Figura 17S: Award ceremony with the NASTRO’s participants of the Brazilian Olympiad of Astronomy and Astronautics,in 2007.

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