If you don't have eclipse glasses, you can build an eclipse viewer at home with just six items: a shoe box, foil, tape, paper, pencil and scissors. Or, even simpler, two paper plates and a pin.

More ways to safely watch the solar eclipse If you don't have time to make a pinhole camera before the eclipse, there are other free and easy ways to project the Sun onto a surface.

Can't find solar eclipse glasses? Here's how to make a pinhole camera viewer using a cereal box.

Surely by now, you're looking for ways to look at the upcoming solar eclipse, so let's do some homemade crafting!

More than 1000 eclipses are planned during the two-year mission. Galano says it is the first artificial eclipse experiment in space since an effort on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975.