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You Can’t Take it All With You – Tech Logic Lesson Series

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Discover the First Woman digital universe. Read the graphic novels in English and Spanish, access educational tools and experiences, and learn about real space technologies for our missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond!

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First Woman Issue No. 1 Reading Comprehension Guide

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Ella peers through a telescope at the star party, held the night before crowds come to watch the total solar eclipse in Madras, Oregon on Sunday, August 20, 2017. The eclipse will be sweeping across a narrow portion of the contiguous United States from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina on August 21. A partial solar eclipse will be visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of South America, Africa, and Europe. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

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