This guide was prepared as a tool useful for informal education venues (4-H, Boys and Girls Clubs, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, etc.), science clubs and related programs, and can be adopted for formal education settings. An exciting and productive study in rocket science can be implemented using the selected activities for the above-mentioned settings. The guide's activities can be correlated to meet formal education's core curriculum objectives or used for ancillary enrichment and extension activities. The series of activities in this guide require basic, inexpensive materials. They demonstrate...

On January 14, 2004, the President directed NASA to embark on a robust space exploration program that will advance the Nation's scientific, security, and economic interests. This is the fundamental goal of the Vision for Space Exploration.

In recent years, impacts from Earth-crossing asteroids and comets have been identified as a threat that is real and credible. Although infrequent in relation to a human lifetime, devastating impacts have occurred countless times during Earth's history and will occur again in the future. In 1990, the United States House of Representatives directed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to study the impact problem. NASA organized an international conference and conducted two workshop studies. The first workshop, comprising three formal meetings in 1991, defined a program for...

This is the administrative report for the 2004 NASA Faculty Fellowship Program (NFFP) held at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) for the 40th consecutive year.

This document represents a summary of medical and scientific evaluations conducted aboard the KC-135 from June 28, 2004 to June 27, 2005. Included is a general overview of KC-135 activities manifested and coordinated by the Human Adaptation and Countermeasures Office. A collection of brief reports that describe tests conducted aboard the KC-135 follows the overview. Principal investigators and test engineers contributed significantly to the content of the report describing their particular experiment or hardware evaluation. Although this document follows general guidelines, each report format...

This book contains: Information on the Lunar Sample Disk, Activity Matrices -- Skills & Standards, A Teacher's Guide, Moon ABCs Fact Sheet, Rock ABCs Fact Sheet, Progress in Lunar Science Chart, 17 activities, Resource Section for each unit, Glossary, NASA Educational Resources. The "Teacher's Guide" titled "The Moon: Gateway to the Solar System," pages 1-16, provides background information about the Moon. It tells the story of the Moon's geological history and how scientists try to decipher the story. This background information may be useful reading for students as well. Key facts about the...

The publication of this revised and updated edition of the classic, Wilbur & Orville Wright: A Bibliography Commemorating the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Wilbur Wright, April 16, 1867, is an event worth celebrating. I have three copies of the 1968 Library of Congress original: one within easy reach at home, one within easy reach at work, and a third copy squirreled away just in case one of the other two goes missing. All three copies are dog-eared and literally coming apart at the seams. Few books in my library have seen more use over the years. It is fitting to open this new...

This beautiful, full-color commemorative reproduction of the original Apollo 11 Flight Plan will delight the historian or space travel enthusiast.

This beautiful commemorative reproduction of the original Apollo 11 Flight Plan will delight the historian or space travel enthusiast.

NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN or Network) is a central component of the Agency's space communications and navigation capability, providing deep space missions with tracking, telemetry, and command services needed to control spacecraft and transmit data. Part of NASA's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Program, DSN operates antennas and transmitters at communications complexes in three locations: Goldstone, California; Madrid, Spain; and Canberra, Australia. NASA has contracts with the Spanish and Australian governments to manage day-to-day operations at the foreign sites and with...