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Rocketry Engineering – Goddard (HS & University)
This lesson delves into the subject of rockets from an...
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Live in a Healthy Space Design Competition: What right stuff...
Theme (unchanged): Tell us how you would employ food, nutrition...
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Determining a Lunar landing Site
Keywords: Apollo, landing site, lunar landing, surveyor, lunar orbiter, lunar photography,...
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Rocketry Engineering – Goddard (HS & University)
This lesson delves into the subject of rockets from an entirely different perspective than Rocket Math: not that of a mathematician, but rather that of an engineer. Specifically, this lesson explores the life and work...
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Radiation in Space
Radiation exposure is high risk for astronauts and a space-faring civilization. This lesson takes a look at understanidng space radiation, it's hazards to the human body and possible mitigation solutions to help humanity learn to...
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Live in a Healthy Space Design Competition: What right stuff would you eat to become...
Theme (unchanged): Tell us how you would employ food, nutrition and fasting to prepare for Long Duration Spaceflight by designing an agricultural module
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Rocketry
It should be mentioned that this course provides a very superficial overview of rocket and spacecraft design. This is by no means a comprehensive resource. Other websites, some of them included here, do a good...
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Space is Our Future – HS
Space is Our Future' is a video and discussion project containing 5 (five) 2-3 minute video episodes that can be used as a whole or each individual episode can be independently to foster discussions about...
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Determining a Lunar landing Site
Keywords: Apollo, landing site, lunar landing, surveyor, lunar orbiter, lunar photography, Schumacher, Dornbach Intended for students 14+ Prerequisites: some basic science, mostly history, no mathematics
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Space Settlement Contest
This contest has been sponsored by NASA Ames Research Center from 1994-2018, for many of those years in conjunction with the National Space Society (NSS).
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Butterflies in Space
Microgravity is a mystery we all wish to unravel – and this can only be done with experiments and careful observations.
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Life on Another Planet?
This course module is a brief summary of biological life on other planets.
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Electrostatics in Space
High energy charged particles can cause big troubles in space from space suits, to spacecraft electronics, to working in space.