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Browse Educational Resources by Topic: Space Exploration

Images


  • The space shuttle is shaped like a stubby airplane with a grayscale image on the left and blue-red colorscale on the right
    Infrared Reentry Analysis: Shuttle Orbiter Columbia
    Credit: NASA with minor adjustments by wikicommons user Ke4roh License: Public Domain icons
  • Gold plaque with drawings of a man & woman, Pioneer spacecraft, solar system, a hydrogen atom and lines converging on Earth
    Pioneer Plaques
    Credit: NASA Ames License: Public Domain icons
  • White Saturn V rocket lifting off, with smoke and fire underneath, next to the launch pad's gantry.
    Lift-off of Apollo 11 on a Saturn V rocket
    Credit: NASA License: Public Domain icons
  • Two astronauts attach a truss to the ISS, against the backdrop of Earth. They wear white space suites attached to the ISS
    Astronauts working outside the ISS
    Credit: STS-116 Shuttle Crew, NASA License: Public Domain icons
  • An astronaut in a white spacesuit stands on the grey lunar surface with a piece of equipment in-front of a lunar lander
    NASA astronauts Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin and Neil Armstrong on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission
    Credit: NASA/Project Apollo Archive License: Public Domain icons
  • The NASA Mars rover Curiosity stands on a hill on Mars.
    Mars Rover Curiosity takes a picture of itself
    Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS License: Public Domain icons
  • The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft approaches the ISS for docking
    The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft is the first Commercial Crew vehicle to visit the International Space Station (ISS).
    Credit: NASA License: Public Domain icons
  • Astronaut Alexander Gerst in a spacesuit during a spacewalk outside the ISS.
    European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst (Germany) during an extravehicular activity (EVA) at the International Space Station (ISS).
    Credit: NASA License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic icons
  • A Soyuz rocket clears the launch tower, taking a crewed Soyuz spaceship to the ISS.
    The Soyuz MS-09 rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
    Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic icons
  • The International Space Station (ISS) is in orbit around the Earth.
    Credit: NASA License: Public Domain icons

Activities


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Space Gardening
 astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 14-16 ,16-19
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
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Asteroid miners
 astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 14-16 ,16-19
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
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3...2...1... time for water rockets!
 astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 12-14 ,14-16 ,16-19
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
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Driving on Mars
 astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 14-16 ,16-19
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
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Where on Earth am I?
 astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 14-16
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
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Country Movers – Visualizing Spatial Scales in Planetary and Earth Sciences
 astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 12-14 ,14-16 ,16-19 ,19+
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
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Children's Planetary Maps: Mars
 astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 6-8 ,8-10 ,10-12 ,12-14
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
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Build Your Own Artificial Satellite
 astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
Age ranges: 8-10
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Header image credit: NASA
Header image license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic icons
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