Understanding Space Travel
Students will design cities in space.

NASA Spin-offs
NASA spin-offs are technologies and processes that were created by or for NASA but have been applied to everyday life

International Space Station
Students will learn about the International Space Station and will explore the many careers associated with it.

Space Colony Jigsaw
Students will determine the probability of designing a space colony with today's technology, design a space colony, and support or oppose the position that space colonization is feasible.

Traveling into Tomorrow!!!
Students will research, debate, and create a space station on the moon.

Mars Pathfinder
Students will use a remote control car, a TV and a video camera to simulate the Mars Pathfinder.

Moon Project Alpha
The earth is dying.  Your group has decided to leave at once and make a new home on the moon.  You have three major challenges: (1) Survival, (2) Form a new government, (3) Persuade others on earth to come and join your colony.

NASA's Engineering Research Centers and Interdisciplinary Education
Unless civilization as a whole slips into a new dark age, space will play a key role in the next century: in observing, understanding, preserving, and utilizing the earth; in probing the fundamental questions concerning our origins and the origins of the universe; and in carrying out the President's call for space exploration and an expanded human presence in space.

NASA - NASA Spinoffs
Many commonly-used products were made possible by NASA ingenuity.

Kodak
Broadening the Impact of Pictures

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