From videos to ready-to implement classroom activities, we’re here to help you get your learners excited about air and space.
Join us for a conversation with Col. Carpenter about flying this legendary aircraft.
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NASA’s Nicholas Borer talks about the X–57 “Maxwell,” an all–electric experimental aircraft.
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Mike Leinbach will share his first–hand account of how agencies worked together to bring Columbia home and search for answers.
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JPL staff members have been working on robotics that are able to climb just like these sticky–footed lizards.
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NASA Astronaut Kjell Lindgren discusses what’s new in research on the orbiting laboratory.
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In 2014, engineer and stratospheric explorer Alan Eustace ascended via balloon to the stratosphere and then took a freefall plunge of more than 135,000 feet.
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Astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei talk about their recent mission on the International Space Station.
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Sometimes when you are working as a team; you can perform miracles. Andrea Putteet
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JAXA Astronaut Soichi Noguchi was the first person to make sushi in space. Hear about this and what it is like to be a member of an international crew orbiting 250 miles above the earth.
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So what exactly can be be captured from space and how is satellite imagery being used today?
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Watch the video to hear what Fischer’s descriptions about his journey to space.
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Batalha is an astrophysicist at NASA Ames Research Center and the project scientist for NASA’s Kepler Mission. Hear about what she is working on and how she got to where she is today.
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