Currently, the ideas space education and space technologies have pen-etrated and school experience. The article discusses the goals and objectives of aerospace education. Also considered forms of organization of cognitive activity of students. The important component of aerospace education is the system of additional aerospace education, which is aimed at the discovery and development of abilities of students, their orientation to education, including recommendations for the establishment of educational programs. The main disadvantage in this case is the fragmentation of programmethodical space educational space. The article discusses the need for the development of teaching materials for each subject of the school course in the framework of aerospace education. Such materials can be used in the classroom groups and sections of an aerospace focus, and also within the main school course without his adjustments to more durable learning and the development of interest of schoolchildren to work in the aerospace industry. The article proposes the formation of common standards and methodological approaches, developed by individual organizations and space centres for children, to the contents of programs of aerospace education. It is important to determine the interaction of such cosmic centres with universities which carry out training of engineering and scientific personnel for the space industry.