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The Hubble Space Telescope is a large space telescope orbiting Earth.
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A satellite is anything that orbits a planet or a star.
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Relay: A Laser-Based Space Communications Game
Learn about laser-based space communications in this game!
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How Do We Launch Things Into Space?
You need a rocket with enough fuel to escape Earth’s gravity!
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How do gravitational waves give us a new way to learn about the universe?
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Paint pumpkins with space and Earth science designs
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Where Do Old Satellites Go When They Die?
They don't last forever. So do they all become 'space junk'?
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See our planet in a whole new light.
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We all use it, but how does it work, anyway?
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Space Place in a Snap explains how your phone knows where to look for pizza.
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Become a NASA engineer!
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How can NASA help us learn about bird migration?
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Find out what other groups also deal with space.
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Write your own zany adventure story!
Write your own zany adventure story!
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The key is curiosity!
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Bad (space) weather cancels pigeon races!
Why do pigeons care about what the Sun is doing?
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Could they have brought the water to our planet?
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Guide your spacecraft through a space maze
Print and do mazes.
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Gallery of NASA Technology Images
Astronauts, rockets, and spacecraft to view or print.
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What kind of math would creatures with 16 fingers invent?
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Launch a rocket from a spinning planet
Wind up that launch pad!
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After all, they know only two words!
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You will get a charge out of this activity!
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How Does NASA Communicate With Spacecraft?
We can send and receive information with the Deep Space Network!
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Telling a pine from a maple ... from space!
What if every kind of tree were a different color?
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Hear tiny sounds with a Super Sound Cone!
Hear tiny sounds you never noticed before!
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Map a 3-D map of the invisible.
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Build your own mountain, then map it.
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Building a 3-D Map of Earth from Space!
And in only 10 days!
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Make a Balloon-powered Nanorover!
A fun project to do with the family.
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Explore the Electromagnetic Spectrum
The windows show the Universe in all its colors.
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Learn more about this useful focused light source!
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Find out why stars aren't all the same color.
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Why Do We Send Robots To Space?
We can send robots to explore space without having to worry so much about their safety. Learn more!
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Build a Bubble-Powered Rocket!
How high can you make your rocket go?
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Get your Gummy Greenhouse Gases!
Make pollutants from gumdrops, then gobble them up!
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DSN Uplink-Downlink: A DSN Game
Help the big antennas gather data from the spacecraft.
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Help Juno reveal Jupiter's true nature.
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Trace space back to you! This link takes you away from NASA Space Place.
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Space Communications and Navigation Kids Zone This link takes you away from NASA Space Place.
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Universe Spacecraft Paper Models
Paper models of the great space observatories and explorers of the universe. This link takes you away from NASA Space Place.
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Top 10 facts about the Sun and lots more. This link takes you away from NASA Space Place.
Science & Technology
GPS and the Quest for Pizza
With a smart phone, you can always find the nearest pizza place.
But how does your phone know where you are? Something called a Global Positioning System, or GPS, tells you.
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