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21st CENTURY EXPLORER
Are we there yet?
Why do astronauts eat tortillas instead of bread?
How would your body change in space?
How can we travel faster in space?
What will replace the Space Shuttle?
Why do robots travel places before people?
Why return to the Moon before going to Mars?
Why do we want to study and travel to Mars?
Where would a space explorer find water and oxygen?
What would you find on the Moon’s surface?
What would you hear in a weather report from Mars?
How will your imagination help you become an explorer?
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WHAT WILL REPLACE THE SPACE SHUTTLE?

Books

Angliss, Sarah: Cosmic Journeys (Future Files), Copper Beech, 1998. ISBN: 076130620X

Chaikin, Andrew: Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts. Penguin Group, 1998. ISBN: 0140272011

Cohen, Shari and Lowell House Staff, Neal Yamamoto: Future Wings: The Step-By-Step Paper Spacecraft Book. Lowell House, 1997. ISBN: 1565656539

Cole, Michael: NASA Space Vehicles: Capsules, Shuttles, and Space Stations (Countdown to Space). Enslow Publishers, 2000. ISBN: 0766013081

Lawrence, Richard Russell: The Mammoth Book of Space Exploration and Disasters: Over 50 True Accounts of Triumph and Tragedy in Space, Taking you Right Inside the Capsule Cockpit and Beyond. Carroll & Graf, 2005. ISBN: 0786714492

Web Sites

3-2-1 Blastoff!
Living on the International Space Station
Find out more about NASA’s plans to return to the moon and travel to Mars and beyond. http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/home/F_Vision_Slideshow.html

NASA Vision for Space Exploration
Follow NASA as we explore Earth, moon, Mars, and beyond. http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/explore_main.html

From Mercury to CEV: Space Capsules Reemerge
The space capsule, eclipsed for years by the shuttle, now appears likely to become its successor. Find out more. http://www.aiaa.org/aerospace/images/articleimages/pdf/
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NATIONAL EDUCATION STANDARDS
National Science Education Standards (NSES)

Content Standard A: Science as Inquiry

  • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry (K–8)
  • Understandings about scientific inquiry (K–8)

Content Standard G: History and Nature of Science

  • Science as a human endeavor (K–8)

Content Standard E: Science and Technology

  • Abilities of technological design (K–8)

International Technology Education Association (ITEA)

Technology and Society

  • Standard 7: Students will develop an understanding of the influence of technology on history.

Design

  • Standard 10: Students will develop an understanding of the role of troubleshooting, research and development, invention and innovation, and experimentation in problem solving.