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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Nova: Historic Space Suits

For Students 9th - 10th
It sounds odd to think of some space suits as actually being historic! But we've been traveling in outer space for quite sometime and space suits were bound to change. Here is an interactive on the different aspects of space travel garb...
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Website
NASA

Kennedy Space Center: Nasa Space Shuttle Launch Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
This site allows easy access to a number of NASA websites with information on space shuttle launches. A chronological listing of all past missions with a link to mission summary sites is the main feature of this site.
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Website
NASA

Nasa, Human Space Flight: Apollo 11 Mission

For Students 3rd - 8th
The story of the Apollo 11 lunar landing is told with dramatic details, pictures, and mission highlights.
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Website
NASA

Nasa: 1969 1999: Apollo 30th Anniversary

For Students 9th - 10th
A special anniversary site for the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. Complete with comments from the astronauts, galleries with many images related to the mission, and much more.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Teachers: The Hunt for Nazi Scientists: Von Braun's Rockets

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the life and accomplishments of Wernher Von Braun and other Nazi space scientists through this interactive timeline. Discover how he came to the United States in Operation Paperclip and why he is known as the father of the...
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Graphic
NASA

Nasa: The Space Place: Gallery of People and Technology

For Students Pre-K - 1st
NASA has provided a whole page full of images for you to download and print. These pictures are labeled and can be enlarged.
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Website
NASA

Nasa: Project Skylab

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has links to many resources about Project Skylab. Detailed information, articles, videos, and images are available here.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Red Rover Robotics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson will start with a brief history of robotics and explain how robots are beneficial to science and society. The lesson then will explore how robots have been used in recent space exploration efforts. The engineering design of...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers:journey to Mars: Why Go to Mars?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the technological advancement of 3-D imaging critical to the 1997 Pathfinder mission. Make a pair of 3-D glasses and use them to view Mars images on the Internet.
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Handout
NASA

Nasa: Aeronautical/astronautical Events of January March 1961

For Students 9th - 10th
This NASA site offers a timeline of significant events in the space race during this brief frame of time, with some discussion of the prestige involved.
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Website
NASA

Nasa: Shuttle Missions

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has links to information on each Space Shuttle mission with the missions grouped by year. Detailed information on each of the Shuttle is provided.
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Handout
NASA

Kennedy Space Center: Skylab Operations Summary

For Students 9th - 10th
This article has a summary of the Skylab mission, including specs on many aspects of the mission.
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Graphic
Curated OER

European Space Agency: Story of the Universe

For Students 3rd - 8th
The story of the universe is told in this engaging site by the European Space Agency. The history of European space science is timelined with dates ranging from 1066 to present day. The birth of galaxies, the big bang, and the beginnings...
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Handout
Other

John Glenn: Astronaut/senator

For Students 3rd - 5th
A concise biography which describes the highlights of the life of John Glenn. Two photos are included in this site.
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eBook
NASA

Nasa: The Rocket Motor

For Students 9th - 10th
An online version of a book pertaining to task of launching rockets into space and subsequently navigating them through space. The first several "chapters" (pages) describe the influence of gravity on Earth and the barriers which it...