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Nasa: The Space Place: What's a Barycenter?
This site from NASA helps in explaining a barycenter. "In the case of the Earth and the Sun, both bodies actually revolve, or spin, around the center of the mass between them. This point is called the barycenter."
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Nasa: The Space Place: Build a Bubble Powered Rocket
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides fun information on bubble powered rockets. "Build your own rocket using paper and fizzing tablets! Watch it lift off. How high does your rocket go?"
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Nasa: The Space Place: Keck Interferometer
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides the opportunity to solve a crossword and learn about the world's biggest telescopes.
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Nasa: The Space Place
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration allows students to explore topics related to planet earth and outer space. A number of games and interactive features are available.
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Nasa: The Space Place: Make Asteroids You Can Eat
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides an interesting activity on making asteroids. "Create your own odd-shaped asteroids out of plain old mashed potatoes. Bake them in the oven to turn them asteroid...
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Nasa: The Space Place: Sorting Out Trees in the Forest
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides fun information on the subject. "people can do their jobs even better if they have very accurate images of the ground. Oddly enough, the best way to see lots of...
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Nasa: The Space Place
This site is geared towards elementary learners, but most lessons can be modified for older learners. Space-related classroom activities, printable images of Earth and space, thought-provoking Space Place Musing podcasts and math-related...
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Imperial College London: Space Missions: Ulysses
Has a basic description of the Ulysses mission, along with explanations of some of the instruments and data.
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Nasa: Imagine the Universe: Got Calcium?
This site has an article on, "The Milky Way galaxy doesn't contain any milk, but it sure does have a lot of calcium. There's enough calcium floating between the stars to fortify trillions about trillions of stars."
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Nasa: Multimedia
NASA shows off images of space here as well as their interactive features: Find a blog, podcasts, interactive features and more. Download your favorite image onto your phone.
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Nasa: Imagine the Universe: The Sun
Site discusses the regions of the Sun's atmosphere such as the Photosphere, Chromosphere, and Corona. Provides sources for educators as well as additional links for students.
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Nasa Space Science Data Archive: The Voyagers
This web page contains information about the Voyager and the Voyager II. The page explains that the Voyagers were designed to go beyond our solar system. The page also contains scientific results of regarding the Voyager mission.
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Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Surveyor (1966 1968)
See pictures of the Surveyor, as well as a small description of the Surveyor mission objectives, along with launch,landing dates and coordinates.
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Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Clementine Mission
Contains the official record of the Clementine mission's survey of the moon, with links to more detailed information about the spacecraft and its mission. Includes images of the mission and planets.
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Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Giotto Mission
This site from the National Space Science Data Center provides information on the Giotto mission which was designed to study Comet P/Halley. The spacecraft encountered Halley on March 13, 1986 and approached to within 600 km. This page...
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Nasa: Educator Features and Articles
K-12 educational articles, lesson plans, and other teaching materials on current NASA projects that meet national education standards. NASA generates awareness of students' interest in space, science, mathematics, geography, and...
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Nasa: Educator Features and Articles
K-12 educational articles, lesson plans, and other teaching materials on current NASA projects that meet national education standards. NASA generates awareness of students' interest in space, science, mathematics, geography, and...
FOX News
Fox News: Space Shuttle Disintegrates; Seven Astronauts Killed
Article from February 2003 detailing the events surrounding the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
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Fox News: Timeline: u.s. Space Program History
An interesting timeline of the history of the U.S. space program from 1961 to 2003. (Published February 1, 2003)
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Tween Tribune: The True Story of "Hidden Figures"
"Hidden Figures" was a blockbuster movie and book about African-American women working for NASA beginning after WWII. These women not only made great strides for the space program but also advanced the civil rights movement. Learn more...
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American National Biography: Project Apollo Crew
This site details the lives of the project Apollo crew, as well as the mishap which resulted in their death.
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Nasa: Jupiter's Ring System
This page is the main NASA archive of information on Jupiter's rings. It includes access to images, animation, and text relating to the discoveries made by the Voyager and Galileo missions.
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Nasa: Is There Water on Mars?
This educator guide allows teachers and students to explore whether or not there is water on Mars. Download this PDF file and use activities to help explore Mars.
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Nasa: Nearside of the Moon: Apollo Landing Sites
This photo of the moon shows the landing sites for Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17.