NASA: Education: Page 4

Click on a month and learn what happened on this day in history in the space program.

Items which are hidden links from top level pages of the Space Educators Handbook are found here.Read the account given by Jim Lovell of the Apollo 13 rescue in April of 1970 or read about the death of a star. What famous comic strip characters travelled to the Moon? Read about the astronauts communicating by HAM RADIO with operators on Earth and over 20 more cool hidden facts.

This publication is an implement of the Technology Transfer Program intended to heighten awareness among potential users of the technology available for transfer and the economic and social benefits that might be realized by applications of NASA technology to U.S. commercial interests.

A resource about the world of space off our planet. Created and maintained at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, this site offers the latest in information and education about the region of space from our Sun through all nine planets and just beyond.

Programs for K-12, university students, educators, minorities and women, and additional resources and links for all grades.

Targeted to educators and students in our six-state region (MN,WI,MI,IL,IN & OH), we encourage students through classroom presentations, guided tours of our facility, teacher resources, and an online collection of K-12 resources developed under the High Performance Computing and Communication project.

STARDUST was launched on February 7, 1999 carrying microchips.Two of the microchips are inside the Sample Return Capsule, and will return back to Earth with the capsule in the year 2006. The other two chips are on the spacecraft body and will remain in space forever. We have a listing of all of the names that have been inscribed onto the microchips.You can search for your name.

This site provides information, contacts, and resources for its education and outreach programs.

Johnson Space Center's educational outreach program for Texas high school students to learn online and then apply for a one week internship at the center.

"You be the Scientist", earth images from space, and virtual trips are on this NASA site which strives to involve more students in the study of COOL (Communications Over Obscure Locations) Space.

SEGway (formerly SII) is a collaborative NASA project which brings together the expertise of NASA scientists, science museums, and K-12 educators to produce NASA science-based Earth and space science curricula for classroom and public use via the World Wide Web.

The SOLAR web site introduces students and teachers to one of NASA's major satellite-based programs designed to study the Earth's atmosphere, the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (SAGE III).

Contains many ready-made K-12 lessons, activities, and experiments that deal with the science of aerodynamics.

Offers virtual NASA visits through workshops on numerous aerospace-related topics using videoconferencing technology.

NASA's Glenn Research Center offers five applets to instruct students in the basics of aerodynamics.

Provides the K-12 educational community with new, exciting information on space science, project information, and interaction with astronomers and space scientists.