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PBS

Pbs: Nova: Anatomy of a Space Rover

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a closer look at the space robots Spirit and Opportunity, and their scientific instruments used for exploring the surface of Mars.
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NASA

Goddard Space Flight Center: The Skylab Space Station

For Students 9th - 10th
On this website you can find pictures of Skylab missions 2,3, and 4.
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NASA

Langley's Role in Project Mercury

For Students 9th - 10th
The article on this website provides a detailed description of the contributions that Langley provided to the Mercury Space Missions.
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NASA

Kennedy Space Center: The Flights: Skylab

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you can find information about each of the four Skylab missions from 1973-74.
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Curated OER

Nasa's the Space Place: New Horizons Mission

For Students 9th - 10th
A photo of the New Horizons mission to visit Pluto, Charon, and the Kupier Belt.
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Curated OER

Cosmos4 Kids: Orion Spacecraft

For Students 9th - 10th
Image of NASA's manned space mission, Orion.
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Other

Astronomy.com

For Students 6th - 8th
Astronomy.com offers daily astronomy news, a photo gallery, hobby news, The Sky Online, telescope information, NASA mission guides and much more.
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Curated OER

National Park Service: America's Space Program Exploring a New Frontier

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site includes a lesson for teachers to use when teaching about America's space program. Also included is the history of the space program, maps, readings, images of the space program, and benefits that resulted from space research.
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NASA

Hsf Outreach: How to Become an Astronaut 101

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA Human Space Flight Outreach page where Lt. Col. Cady Coleman talks about what it's like to be an astronaut and how a passion for high school chemistry led her to become a scientists and shuttle crew member. Her role on the STS-93...
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NASA

Hsf: The Apollo Program

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has links to many NASA resources about the Apollo program. Detailed information on each of the Apollo missions as well as a large number of images are available from this site.
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NASA

Nasa: Welcome to the Planets the Voyagers 1 & 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This web page contains information and images on the pretesting, space simulation, and launch of Voyager I and Voyager II.
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Curated OER

Mercury Image#pia00437, Nasa/jpl/caltech

For Students 9th - 10th
New analysis of data returned by the Mariner 10 mission. Includes several photo images. Examines the possibility of volcanism in the history of Mercury and comparisons to Hawaiian and Lunar volcanic events.
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Curated OER

Nasa Mars Exploration Rover

For Students 9th - 10th
This fascinating site from NPR describes the two missions launched on June 11, 2003 to explore Mars and collect evidence that may help scientists solve the many mysteries of Mars. The site contains vivid pictures and links to many...
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NASA

Mariner Planetary Space Probes

For Students 9th - 10th
This web page contains information about the Mariner space probes. It gives detailed pictures of the probes.
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Space Telescope Science Institute

Overview of the Hubble Space Telescope

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives an overview of the Hubble Space Telescope program. It also gives details about the previous and current science instruments used in the program, and information about the mission operations and observations.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: John Glenn

For Students 9th - 10th
An open-source encyclopedic site containing the biography of astronaut John Glenn discusses his many accomplishments and contributions to the space program.
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Other

Ulysses Space Probe Makes Surprise Trip Into Comet's Tail

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting article about a surprising finding on Ulysses' second orbit.
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My Hero Project

My Hero: Sally Ride

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about the first American woman to go up in space with this brief article on Sally Ride.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Career Profile: Psychologist

For Students 9th - 10th
The job of the psychologist is to atempt to understand human behavior and perhaps offer ideas on how to change those behaviors, if necesarry. Read this Science Buddies profile on what is involved in being a psychologist. Of interest is a...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Mass Spectrometry: How to Weigh an Atom

For Students 9th - 10th
It's hard enough to weigh something as itty bitty as atoms or molecules. Factor in that they're careening by faster than Jeff Gordon on steroids, and you get an idea what scientists are up against. Using comet particles from NASA's...
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American Academy of Achievement

Academy of Achievement: Sally K. Ride, ph.d.

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel to space. She flew on two Space Shuttle Challenger missions. After the Challenger disaster in 1986, she served on the Presidential Commission investigating the accident, and...
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Space.com

Space.com: Stardust Heads for Comet

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides an article on the Stardust space probe and how it snags burning particles from comets and returns them to earth. Mainly discusses the "Gravity boost," planet earth gave the probe as it began searching for a comet.
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Race to the Moon

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1955, the US and the USSR each announced plans to launch a satellite into orbit. Thus began the race to the moon. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the American space program and its new classes of astronauts achieved breakthroughs in...
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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.