Student Project . . Make a Hovercraft Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ Last Updated: Nov. 11, 2024 Want to teach this? View the Lesson Plan Subject Engineering Time Required 30 - 60 mins Grade Levels 3-8 Want to teach this? View the Lesson Plan A hovercraft is a device that moves by floating on a cushion of air. NASA uses hovercraft to test spacecraft and the ways they need to move. This is because the objects we put in space experience hardly any friction – and the same is tr