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Handout
Children's Museum

Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Cosmic Quest: Space Craft

For Students 4th - 8th
Travel to other planets and even outer space, and explore various spacecraft. Get a synopsis about each of the featured planetary space probe missions.
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Website
NASA

Nasa Science Missions

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at the many space missions from the past, present, and future. Each mission has a link to more information such as where it is at this point and where it is heading.
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Website
NASA

Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Apollo Program

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an extensive online review of the 17 Apollo missions. Resources are organized by mission number and include descriptions, mission details, photographs, and scientific data sets.
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Website
NASA

Nasa Star Child:space Probes (Level 1)

For Students 3rd - 8th
This page of NASA's excellent Starchild site deals with Space Probes. Learn about the various planetary probes by clicking on the planet of interest.
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Website
European Space Agency

Esa Rosetta

For Students 9th - 10th
This complete overview of the Rosetta mission is a fantastic source that is updated for every new discovery or happening during the mission. Additional links to a multimedia gallery, and to learn about the team that is working on the...
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Website
NASA

Nasa Star Child: Probes to the Outer Planets (Level 2)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has a description of the many probes sent to the outer planets, including pictures and vocabulary words linked to a glossary of terms. Other links on interesting facts and more detailed information are also included.
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Website
NASA

Nasa Star Child: International Ultraviolet Explorer (Level 2)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a description of the International Ultraviolet Explorer and what it accomplished. Glossary, graphics and a printable version are also included.
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Website
NASA

Nasa Star Child: Chandra X Ray Observatory (Level 2)

For Students 3rd - 8th
A description of the missions of Chandra. There is also an audio song. Glossary, graphics and printable version of page included.
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Website
NASA

Nasa Star Child: The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (Cgro) (Level 2)

For Students 9th - 10th
A short description of the CGRO and its mission. Printable version available. Includes graphics and vocabulary words are linked to a glossary of terms.
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Website
NASA

Nasa: Explorer: America's First Spacecraft

For Students 9th - 10th
Featuring various multimedia resources, NASA provides a comprehensive overview of America's first space satellite, Explorer 1, that launched the United States into space exploration.
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Graphic
European Space Agency

European Space Agency: Esa Kids: Our Universe: Cassini Huygens

For Students 3rd - 8th
An introduction to Cassini-Huygen, a joint mission to investigate Saturn and its moon, Titan. Told in an animated comic format.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Carl Sagan

For Students 9th - 10th
This encyclopedia article from Wikipedia provides a brief biography of Carl Sagan, the American astronomer who pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), and science in general.
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Website
Other

British National Space Centre: Missions a Z

For Students 9th - 10th
Descriptions of space missions the United Kingdom was involved in as of 2006. Information is dated and further research is required to discover the success of these missions. From the British National Space Centre.
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Oersted Satellite, 1999

For Students 9th - 10th
Named in honor of Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted, Denmark's first satellite has been observing and mapping the magnetic field of the Earth.
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PPT
BBC

Bbc News: Animated Guide: The Rosetta Mission

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief animated guide to the Rosetta mission allows you to see how it is going to get to the comet, and then what it will do once it arrives there.
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Handout
Children's Museum

Field Guide to the Universe: Space Craft

For Students 9th - 10th
Pictures and descriptions of the robot spacecraft that have explored the planets and outer space since the 1960s.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Journey to Pluto, the Farthest World Ever Explored

For Students 9th - 10th
Alan Stern explains how NASA's New Horizons mission will to allow us to see Pluto for the first time.