International Space Station - Spot the Station

Here is a list of the dates and the times the station will be visible this month.  Enjoy and get the family out there with you.

Click here to learn more about how to Spot the Station!
Go to the Station Page - in the omnibox, type:  nasa.gov/iss

Check out these two videos showing how the station was put together:
Animated part by part
Actual footage of station coming together

Robots on the ISS?  For almost 10 years, robots have helped astronauts.  Not a new generation is taking over.  Check it out!

Best pics from the ISS

International Observe the Moon Night 2019

International Observe the Moon Night 2019

Your assignment is to learn as much about the moon as possible.  Then, go out and observe the moon over the next few nights & watch it go through its cycles.

The information below is filled with ideas, facts, & information.  Check it out.

Link: 10 Things: International Observe the Moon Night

Link: NASA's - About the Moon

Pop Culture

Le Voyage Dans la Lun (A Trip to the Moon) by Georges Méliès (1902)

Link: What's up in the October Skies - Video information

Space How-To Video

Not about the Moon, but definitely about an important part of being an astronaut & traveling in a spaceship.  Funny & informative:

How Hygiene is Different in Space

Space Out Friday Comments & Questions

ISS Overhead Tonight!

The International Space Station will be overhead tonight at a great time.  Here is the info.

Time: Fri Sep 21 7:56 PM, Visible: 5 min, Max Height: 81°, Appears: 11° above SW, Disappears: 19° above NE

Check out this NASA site to know when the ISS will be visible in your area.

You can sign up to receive email notifications when the ISS will be overhead on this site.

Enjoy the night sky tonight!

 

A Day in Space

Hi all, 

Last year's solar eclipse encouraged people to look up into our skies.  I'm encouraging you to keep that momentum going by knowing what is happening in our skies this year.

FYI - Lunar eclipse on the January 31st!  The video below talks about this event.  Info about the event

Check out this link for a calendar of events in our skies this year!

Part of our success into space has come at great cost.  January 28 is the 32 anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster.  Here are some resources to inform others about what many of us witnessed. 

Crista's lessons will finally be taught and video about What we learned from the accident 2 min

1986 Challenger Launch footage 4 min

Video - Challenger Documentary 50 min

More resources on previous disasters

Columbia Documentary  55 min

Apollo 1 1967 report of disaster 40 min

Related links to learn more about space exploration

Check out this 1950's video of our first satellite!

Jet Propulsion Laboratories

JPL Education Site - Amazing!

National Aeronautics and Space Administration check out education link

NASA Kids Club

Some appropriate quotes.

I touch the future. I teach. 

Christa McAuliffe

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done. Christa McAuliffe

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. 

Marshall McLuhan

More to come!  Thinking Mission to Mars!