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Homework Topics Grades 5-8: Search by Topic

> Aeronautics
> Astronauts
> Earth Science
> General
> History
> Rockets and Space Vehicles
> Space Science

Aeronautics

A model airplane in a wind tunnel

What Are Wind Tunnels?
> Read and Comment

A drawing of a jet flying above a desert, with arrows pointing away from the jet

What Is Aerodynamics?
> Read and Comment

A speeding bullet

What Is Supersonic Flight?
> Read and Comment

Astronauts

Armstrong in a white spacesuit in front of a picture of the moon

Who Is Neil Armstrong?
> Read and Comment

Lee in a spacesuit in front of Earth, with the shuttle in the foreground

What Is a Spacesuit?
> Read and Comment

An astronaut floating in space

What Is a Spacewalk?
> Read and Comment

Earth Science

A large, white swirling storm over the ocean

What Are Hurricanes?
> Read and Comment

A penguin standing in the snow

What Is Antarctica?
> Read and Comment

General

Satellites circle Earth

What Is a Satellite?
> Read and Comment

Three astronauts float, with two sideways and one right side up

What Is Microgravity?
> Read and Comment

Artist's version of the Altair docked with Orion

What Is NASA?
> Read and Comment

History

Friendship 7 launches atop an Atlas rocket

What Was Project Mercury?
> Read and Comment

An astronaut sits in a lunar rover on the moon

What Was the Apollo Program?
> Read and Comment

Rockets and Space Vehicles

Artist's version of the Altair docked with Orion

What Is Altair?
> Read and Comment

A computer drawing of what an Ares V launch will look like

What Is Ares?
> Read and Comment

A drawing of the LRO spacecraft in orbit

What Is LRO?
> Read and Comment

Artist's version of Orion in lunar orbit

What Is Orion?
> Read and Comment

An artist's picture of the finished space station

What Is the ISS?
> Read and Comment

A space shuttle landing

What Is the Space Shuttle?
> Read and Comment

Space Science

A black hole with gas spiraling into it

What Is a Black Hole?
> Read and Comment

Mars

What Is Mars?
> Read and Comment

Pluto and its three moons

What Is Pluto?
> Read and Comment

The Fermi satellite in space above a partial view of Earth

What Is the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope?
> Read and Comment

The Hubble Space Telescope orbits above Earth

What Is the Hubble Space Telescope?
> Read and Comment

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