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As students across the country are saying goodbye to the summer and hello to a new school year, we’re gearing up to engage K-12 students in activities and challenges.
Check out our many resources to inspire the next generation of explorers, and help educators and students stay involved in NASA’s missions.
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Take the Next Giant Leap with Us – With Artemis, NASA will land the first
woman and first person of color on the Moon. This exciting new era is underway and the first uncrewed flight test of our powerful Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, Artemis I, will launch later this year. Get involved in our
Artemis Student Challenges.
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Look Beyond
– The James Webb Space Telescope will be the largest, most powerful and complex space science observatory ever built. Learn more about how Webb can be used as a window into
the early universe with our
STEM Toolkit.
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Share Your Earth-Inspired Art – For 50 years, Landsat satellites have
collected images of Earth from space. On Sept. 16, Landsat 9 is scheduled to launch and continue this legacy. Crafters of all ages are invited to share
Landsat-inspired art creations.
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Next Stop: The International Space Station!
– New science heads to the space station aboard a SpaceX cargo resupply mission Saturday, Aug. 28. The Dragon spacecraft will deliver a variety of investigations, including a
study on preventing and treating bone density loss, an investigation that could detect and mitigate vision disorders, and a new robotic arm demonstration that could reveal potential uses on Earth, including in disaster relief.
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Star Trek’s Connection to NASA – 100 years after Star Trek creator Gene
Roddenberry was born, we'll help send his legacy of inspiration, hope, and diversity out into the cosmos. Tune in to a special program with Rod Roddenberry, Gene Roddenberry’s son, George Takei, actor and activist, Administrator Bill Nelson and some of NASA’s
best and brightest.
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Where Food Meets Methane – Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that can
come from a variety of sources on our planet, including agriculture. At NASA, our Earth scientists study the global methane budget to better understand the primary sources of methane emissions and how they contribute to climate change.
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Mosquito Challenge – The GLOBE Program invites citizen scientists from
around the world to help with the Mosquito Habitat Photo Challenge. Put your camera skills to work and help us identify mosquito larvae so that we can help prevent outbreaks of mosquito-borne disease.
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Come Fly Away with Us
– Are you traveling by air anytime soon? It might not be immediately visible to you, but every U.S. aircraft and air traffic control tower uses NASA-developed technology. In
honor of
National Aviation Day, join us in celebrating all things aviation.
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Meet
Paromita Mitra, a human interface engineer, who works on developing spacesuit technologies for Lunar and Martian missions at our Johnson Space Center in Houston.
“Getting to be a part of the Artemis Generation and contributing to sending the first woman and person of color to the Moon, is so innately motivating. Working
on the [spacesuit] itself is an exciting challenge. It’s very cross-disciplinary. There are biomedical problems you’re approaching, there are optical problems, there are mechanical, electrical, computer science problems.”
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Images of knobbly rocks and rounded hills are delighting scientists as our Curiosity rover climbs Mount Sharp, a mountain within the basin of Mars’ Gale Crater.
The rover’s Mast Camera, or Mastcam, highlights those features in a panorama captured July 3, 2021.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
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