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Meet the STS-129 Launch Team →
Read biographies of some of the key people in the firing room during launch.
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Mars Education Program →
The Mars Curriculum Modules help bring the topic of Mars into your 4-12 classrooms.
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Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite
Is there water on the moon? LCROSS hopes to find some!
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The X-15, the Pilot and the Space Shuttle
Fifty years later, X-15 test pilot and former space shuttle commander Joe Engle recalls the highs and lows of this unique, high-speed research aircraft.
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Do-It-Yourself Podcast: Spacesuits
Create your own podcast about spacesuits with NASA video and audio clips.
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NASA Podcasts
Add multimedia content to your lessons. NASA offers many different podcasts on a variety of topics.
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Space Radiation Health Project →
The purpose of this project is to achieve human exploration and development of space without exceeding an acceptable level of risk from exposure to space radiation.
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Rock Around the World →
Send the Mars team a rock, and they will use a special tool like the one on the Mars rover to tell you what the rock is made of.
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Cosmic Times Is Hot off the Presses
Trace our understanding of the universe during the last 100 years with six posters resembling newspaper front pages.
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Landing 101
Learn some of the key events that take place at each milestone prior to touchdown.
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New Horizons Mission →
Learn more about this mission to study Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.
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Shuttle Commander Tweets, Takes Questions in Space
STS-127 Commander Mark Polansky invited his Twitter followers to submit questions that he answered from orbit during his mission.
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Apollo 40th Anniversary Events and Activities
Celebrate the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with these activities planned nationwide.
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Apollo Near You
Use this interactive map to find moon rocks and Apollo astronaut hometowns near you.
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Adventures in Science Games →
Try the Temperature Game, Shoot a Cannonball into Orbit, or Build a Newtonian Physics Machine.
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Why We Explore
In a series of essays titled "Why We Explore", NASA Chief Historian Steven J. Dick writes about our current Age of Space as "a continuous story of voyages further and further from the home planet."
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Student of the Stars
A love of astronomy helped one college student set a course for a variety of science internships at JPL.
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NASA 360
This thirty-minute magazine-style program highlights NASA's impact on daily lives, showcasing some of the 30,000 inventions developed by NASA over the past 50 years.
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See the Sun in a New Light →
The Space Weather Media Viewer allows you to view real-time NASA satellite images of the sun and Earth. Videos are also available that answer questions about the sun.
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Spacesuits and Spacewalks Career Corner
Read about the people who teach astronauts how to wear and work in spacesuits; meet suit designers, technicians and engineers; and learn more about people who work behind the scenes of spacewalks.
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