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Fiction and Non-Fiction Books Reviewed by NSS
The National Space Society has a Book Review section for...
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Determining a Lunar landing Site
Keywords: Apollo, landing site, lunar landing, surveyor, lunar orbiter, lunar photography,...
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Citizen Science Projects for Space Science and Astronomy
This lesson introduces the concept of citizen science and shows...
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Send Postcards to Space!
The National Space Society partners with Blue Origin's Club for...
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Bringing Space to the Whole School!
Ms. Werner, a band teacher at a small Catholic school...
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How to Design a Microgravity Experiment
This course is to help students focus their efforts in...
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An explanation of aerodynamic lift
Lift is explained as resulting from circulation, and is not...
4 Enrolled -
Stellar Spectra: Blackbodies or Not?
Using Sloan data, you will compare actual stellar spectra to...
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Using the Tools of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
The database provides photometric and spectroscopic data of millions of...
9 Enrolled
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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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Fiction and Non-Fiction Books Reviewed by NSS
The National Space Society has a Book Review section for you. This list of books is reviewed by NSS members and provided by NSS.
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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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Citizen Science Projects for Space Science and Astronomy
This lesson introduces the concept of citizen science and shows ways that you can get involved!
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Send Postcards to Space!
The National Space Society partners with Blue Origin's Club for the Future to promote the Postcards to Space Initiative! The course will guide you in sending a postcard you create to space which will become A TRUE SPACE...
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Bringing Space to the Whole School!
Ms. Werner, a band teacher at a small Catholic school in Dousman, Wi, moved out of her comfort zone and took advantage of a microgravity workshop. The outcome of the workshop was the possibility to...
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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.
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How to Design a Microgravity Experiment
This course is to help students focus their efforts in the task of designing a microgravity experiment for EIS. Experiment Design, Microgravity considerations, microbiological experiments, physical experiments, engineering experiments and physical experiments
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An explanation of aerodynamic lift
Lift is explained as resulting from circulation, and is not the consequence of the widely held but the erroneous equal transit time hypothesis. Both wind tunnel observations and the author's own wing modeling in OpenFoam...
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Stellar Spectra: Blackbodies or Not?
Using Sloan data, you will compare actual stellar spectra to ideal blackbody curves. Can stars be modeled as the image suggests? Manager: Kathy Gustavson
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Stellar Spectra
Sloan Digital Sky Survey produces two types of data, photometric and spectroscopic. The Spectroscopy project will have introduced you to the types of spectra from astronomical objects.
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Using the Tools of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
The database provides photometric and spectroscopic data of millions of astronomical objects. This project will introduce you to the use of several simple tools.