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Taking the search out of search and rescue
No cell reception? Take your beacon!
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Curiosity is the key!
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Play "Missions to Planet Earth"!
Beat the computer by launching three Earth missions first.
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Help the big antennas gather data from the spacecraft.
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Space Place kids talk to NASA scientists and engineers.
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See the universe in Cosmic Colors.
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Help Juno reveal Jupiter's true nature.
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Build a Bubble-Powered Rocket!
How high can you make your rocket go?
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Gallery of people and technology
Astronauts, rockets, and spacecraft to view or print.
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A story about a girl's search for another Earth.
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What makes laser light so extraordinary?
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Dr. Marc answers questions about technology
A few words about the technologies of discovery.
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Or, how a little technology goes a long way.
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Listen to black holes and other cosmic weirdness.
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Help the astronauts go back to the Moon.
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Why do we need two eyes?
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How can a toy help with space travel?
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LISA mission gives humans a sixth sense
If you could "hear" a black hole, what would it sound like?
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Building a 3-D Map of Earth from Space!
And in only 10 days!
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How did we get from Galileo's telescope to the Hubble Space Telescope?
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Sun-powered airplane flies at record altitude!
Looks can be deceiving.
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What do tortillas and rocket fuel have in common?
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A boardgame adventure!
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It's all done with mirrors!
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After all, they know only two words!
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Shrink a skyscaper full of squishy balls.
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Space Place apps for iPhone and iPad
Download games for your mobile phone!
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What everyday inventions came from the space program?
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The Three Little Piggy-back Satellites
Toss them into orbit like Frisbees!
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Could they have brought the water to our planet?
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Can you keep up with the data?
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Shield these satellites from bad space weather!
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Getting into space with no launch pad!
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Learn how to turn numbers into pictures!
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Kids' visions for the New Millennium
Technology-inspired art and poetry.
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Download Space Place background images for your desktop.
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Astronomy Club Partner Program
The benefits and how you can join.
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Pilot the Rosetta spacecraft!
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How do you build a weather satellite?
Fill a truck full of weather instruments and toss it into orbit?
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What hears a whisper a billion miles away?
Ears the size of football fields?
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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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Hear tiny sounds with a Super Sound Cone!
Hear tiny sounds you never noticed before!
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Test a new spacecraft material
Crush a can without touching it!
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"Emoticonstructor" at Your Service!
Let the Emoticonstructor "evolve" a face to match your mood!
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Help design the Deep Space 1 spacecraft
The very first spacecraft with ion drive!
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Match LIGHT faces with HEAT faces!
Faces look different in infrared light.
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Make a Balloon-powered Nanorover!
A fun project to do with the family.
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Buckle up for an adventure!
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Race the rising thermometer as you unjumble heat words.
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Find out why stars aren't all the same color.
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How to yell across a solar system
How spacecraft send pictures through space.
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See a giant rose-covered space robot!
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What can read a newspaper from a mile away?
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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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A trip to the Land of the Magic Windows
The windows show the Universe in all its colors.
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A close encounter of the AutoNav kind!
Could you hit a soccer goal on the Moon?
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Get your Gummy Greenhouse Gases!
Make pollutants from gumdrops, then gobble them up!
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You will get a charge out of this activity!
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Stump your friends with your mosaic robot puzzle!
See space robots in action.
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So many possibilities. How to choose?
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Does your nose know enough for space travel?
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Do a HUMONGOUS telescope crossword!
Learn about the largest light telescopes in the world.
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One place you don't want to have a dead battery!
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Do a crossword and see 3-D pictures of Earth from space!
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A story about stuff that's almost not there!
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Guide your spacecraft through a space maze
Print and do mazes.
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Launch a rocket from a spinning planet
Wind up that launch pad!
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Follow Echo through Arizona on his adventure to his winter home for hibernating. This link takes you away from The Space Place. But it's very easy to come back!
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Amelia the Pigeon has a camera and photographs everything from above. This link takes you away from The Space Place. But it's very easy to come back!
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Top 10 facts about the Sun??? and lots more. This link takes you away from The Space Place. But it's very easy to come back!
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A learning center for young astronomers. This link takes you away from The Space Place. But it's very easy to come back!
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Build a model spacecraft to explore the solar system!
Paper models of your favorite solar system explorers. This link takes you away from The Space Place. But it's very easy to come back!
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Bad (space) weather cancels pigeon races!
Why do pigeons care about what the Sun is doing?
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