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Nasa: Astronaut Training Timeline
A great interactive look at what it takes to become an astronaut. This timeline displays the process that the class of 2004 went through to become astronauts.
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Nasa: Astronaut Training Timeline
A great interactive look at what it takes to become an astronaut. This timeline displays the process that the class of 2004 went through to become astronauts.
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Nasa: Hurricane Season 2005: Rita
Outstanding web site from NASA that details Hurricane Rita and has a plethora of visuals such as interactive maps, aerial photographs, videos, and more. Great source.
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Nasa: Sts 107 (Space Shuttle Columbia)
NASA.gov provides information regarding the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Content includes crew biographies, press releases, shuttle images, and scientific data and research.
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Nasa: Imagers: Teacher's Guide
NASA site provides a thematic unit on Remote Sensing targeted for students in grades 5-8. Within the unit, users will find lesson plans, reproducible worksheets, visuals, and links to useful resources.
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Nasa: Imagers: Teacher's Guide
NASA thematic unit targets students in grades 5-8. Within the unit, users will find lesson plans, reproducible worksheets, visuals, and links to useful resources.
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Nasa: Imagers: Echo Goes to Arizona!
NASA site follows Echo the Bat as he travels through Arizona using false-color satellite images.
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Nasa: Human Spaceflight Gallery Archive
Search this NASA gallery database for multimedia resources (images, video, audio) from these NASA space programs: the shuttle missions, the International Space Station, and the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab space missions.
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Nasa: The Adventures of Ameila the Pigeon
Amelia the Pigeon has been given assignments related to how the land changes. These assignments center around imaging, remote sensing, and the history of New York City. They are presented in an engaging manner and are supported by...
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Nasa: Selection and Training of Astronauts [Pdf]
NASA information on the qualifications required of astronaut candidates and how often astronaut selection is made. Various job descriptions are included and details of several types of training programs are provided.
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Nasa: The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (Soho)
NASA provides a detailed overview of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), currently orbiting the sun and gathering information on the sun's structure, composition and dynamics. Site includes images, movies, data, solar lessons,...
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Nasa Earth Observatory: Polar Ice Fact Sheet
Learn about polar ice, its effects on energy exchanges, how much surface area it covers, and how it is affected by global warming.
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Nasa Smartskies: Line Up With Math: Math Based Decisions in Air Traffic Control
In association with NASA, LineUp With Math presents problem sets which 'enable students to explore and apply decision-making and reasoning skills, specifically to resolve distance-rate-time conflicts in air traffic control'. An...
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Nasa: Space Shuttle Orbiter Fleet
Resource describes each of the Space Shuttle Orbiters, their specifications and explains their operation. Descriptions of upgrades and modifications are provided. Included is a brief description of how the shuttle is processed to prepare...
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Global Hydrology and Climate Center
Has information and hydrology data from around the world. It also has a section discussing human impacts on the climate and another which covers current research.
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Nasa: Solar System Exploration: Galileo
Learn about the Galileo mission in its entirety. Read updates on the mission as well as new picture from the space probe itself.
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Nasa: The Adventures of Amelia the Pigeon
This site offers the ebook The Adventures of Amelia the Pigeon chapter by chapter. It also provides six lesson plans for grades K-2 and three lesson plans for grades 3-4.
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Global Climate Change: Sea Level Viewer
This viewer allows you to see ocean heat storage from space. These images indicate sea surface heights. Learn more about El Nino and La Nina and how they have profound effects on world climate.
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Nasa: Gemini, Bridge to the Moon
This site has links to many NASA resources about the Gemini program. Detailed information on Gemini missions and many images are available from this site.
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Kennedy Space Center: Nasa Space Shuttle Launch Archive
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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Nasa: Space Shuttle Mission Archives: Sts 95
A summary of the mission in which John Glenn returned to space 36 years after his 3-orbit Mercury program mission in 1962. A description of the mission is provided. Information on the other six members of the crew is included.