Teaching From Space

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Learn more about how you and your students can get involved in real space missions.

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Visit the NASA Education website. You'll discover a wealth of information including a list of current opportunities; education related feature stories; and contact information for project representatives.

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Introduction

    Teach Station is the platform for space-station-focused education resources, science and research information for students and teachers, crew updates, and up-to-the-minute education news. Visit often and watch for updates.

Station: Who, What, When, Where?

The Orion capsule sits in a blue background

Join the Exploration Design Challenge

NASA's EDC gives students from kindergarten through 12th grade the opportunity to play a unique role in the future of human spaceflight.

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Astronaut Frank Culbertson poses with MAMS hardware in the U.S. Laboratory during Expedition 3 on the International Space Station. (NASA)

How Do We Know It's Really Microgravity?

When you see astronauts floating around the International Space Station and hear they are in microgravity, what does that really mean?

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The Expedition 36 crew poses in front of a picture of the space station's solar panels

Meet the Crew for Expedition 36

The crew members come from the United States, Italy and Russia.

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The space station just off the coast of California

Spot the Station

NASA's Spot the Station service sends you an email or text message a few hours before the space station passes over your house.

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Cover of press kit with image of space station and title Expedition 35-36

Read All About It [15MB PDF file]

Take a look at the NASA Press Kit to learn all about Expedition 35.

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Some of the research on the International Space Station is already focusing on meeting the needs of long-term spaceflights beyond low-Earth orbit. During Expedition 29 in 2011, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov checks the progress of new growth in the Rastenia investigation aboard the space station. (NASA)

Kennedy Engineers Designing Plant Habitat

NASA's Kennedy Space Center uses in-house expertise to develop an International Space Station Plant Habitat for microgravity plant growth studies.

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What's an Expedition?

Education Resources

    A girl beside an image of the space station

    Laura talks about the space station in this video from NASA y Tú. Resources and videos are available in Spanish and English. Image Credit: NASA

     Get Involved With Education on the Space Station -- Student projects, downlinks, professional development and outreach activities.
    Topic-based Websites -- Microgravity, Rocketry, Robotics, Spacesuits.
    Classroom Materials -- Educator guides, lesson plans, posters and research problems for students.
    Student Features and Related Sites -- Articles for students and general audiences about the space station.
    Just for Fun -- Interactive games and activities.
    Multimedia -- Videos, interviews, Do-It-Yourself Podcasts, and lots more for space station fans.

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Get to Know the Space Station

Space Station Homepage

Space station
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Space Station Benefits

One of the areas the International Space Station Benefits for Humanity website will highlight is Earth observations, which aid in providing information for disaster response from natural events, like the Sarychev Peak volcano eruption pictured above. (NASA)
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3-D Tour of the Space Station

The Japanese Experiment Module above smaller images of other parts of the space station
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ISS Interactive Reference Guide

Artist's drawing of interior of Destiny module with headshot from video of astronaut Mike Finck shown in corner
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Explore the Station

    Astronaut Suni Williams talks on a microphone while on the space station

    Astronaut Suni Williams gives a tour of the International Space Station.
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School Days

    Astronaut Chris Cassidy

    The station crew share their favorite memories of school and give advice to today's students.
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In the News

  • NASA Astronaut To Attend Summer Skies At Macomb

    06.10.13 - astronaut and Michigan native Andrew “Drew” Feustel will attend the Summer Skies at Macomb star party at 7:30 p.m. EDT Friday, June 14, at Macomb Community College’s South Campus in Warren, Mich.

  • Massachusetts Students Speak With Space Station Astronauts

    06.06.13 - Expedition 36 crew members Chris Cassidy, Luca Parmitano, and Karen Nyberg will speak from the International Space Station to students at Douglas Public Schools in Massachusetts at 11:35 a.m. EDT, Monday, June 10.

  • NASA’s Destination Station Exhibit Lands In Seattle

    05.30.13 - Starting Monday, June 10, residents of Seattle and surrounding areas are invited to experience NASA’s Destination Station exhibit, which showcases what it’s like to live aboard the International Space Station.

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