Endeavour Undocks From the Space Station
NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is the preferred end-of-mission landing site for the space shuttle orbiter.
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Landing Facts -- About the Shuttle Landing Facility
Read about Endeavour's last flight and landing in 2002.
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Touchdown
Watch this video clip of an orbiter making a picture-perfect landing at Kennedy Space Center.
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Space Shuttle Glider (Grades 5-12)
Assemble a basic scale model of the space shuttle as a hands-on activity. The activity features math-related concepts such as finding the scale of the paper model and the glide ratio of its flight.
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World Wind
Zoom into any place on Earth.
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Night Lights Poster (Grades K-12)
Geography is fun with a poster of the Earth, compiled from hundreds of nighttime satellite images.
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Earth From Space
The NASA Space Shuttle Earth Observations Photography Web site is a database of selected photos of Earth taken by astronauts from space.
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It's a Breeze
Living on the space shuttle and the International Space Station is different from living on Earth. Find out what happens when air pressure changes and how it affects people. Try the air pressure experiments and word search, and then take a balloon ride.
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Earth and Its Climate
STS-118 astronauts return to a constantly changing Earth. Read about how scientists use satellites, technology and know-how to peer into the ozone hole, to see the ingredients of hurricanes, and to study earthquakes, gravity, pollution, melting glaciers and ice caps.
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The Air We Breathe Picture Book (Grades K-4)
This colorful picture book is about Earth's atmosphere and its importance to life on Earth.
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Pictures of Endeavour Landing
Approaching Touch Down
Space Shuttle Endeavour is moments away from touch down at the Shuttle Landing Facility, after its last mission to the International Space Station.
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After Touch Down
The drag chute trails Space Shuttle Endeavour after touch down on runway 33 at the Shuttle Landing Facility, bringing to a close STS-113 in December 2002.
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