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Speakers over the years have included Nobel-prize winners, members of the National Academy of Sciences, the first woman in history to discover a planet, an astrophysicist who is an award-winning science fiction writer, and many other well-known scientists explaining astronomical developments in everyday language.

Includes links to educational resources such as Galileo Teacher Training Program, Astronomy Behind the Headlines

The following curricula are some of the most requested by teachers over many years. These were not created by AIAA, but we felt that they would have value to teachers and so have made them available in pdf format. Some of this curriculum has come from educational partners or has been passed along as a favorite. We hope that these materials will help you excite your students about math and science in a new way!

NASA Explorer Schools Live Video Chat: Computer Graphics and Animations NASA Explorer Schools invites students in grades 6-9 from across the U.S. and Department of Defense schools to participate in a live video chat with Zareh Gorjian. Gorjian is currently the lead animator and software engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Join NES on June 2, 2011, at noon EDT for this very special video chat to ask questions about NASA's computer-generated animations and graphics. Go to the chat page on the NASA Explorer Schools Virtual Campus website to participate in the webchat. You do not need to be a participant of the NASA Explorer Schools project to join the chat. To learn more about NES, please visit the explorerschools.nasa.gov website and click on the What Is NES? video or the About NES link.

NASA/NSTA Web Seminar: Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer Mission NASA has teamed with the National Science Teachers Association to offer a Web seminar highlighting the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer mission. Launching in 2013, this small spacecraft mission will assess the compositional makeup and variability of the moon's thin atmosphere and will investigate the mysterious dust lofting phenomenon. Register today for this 90-minute webinar taking place on May 31, 2011, at 6:30 p.m. EDT.

NASA | Art: 50 Years of Exploration Exhibit For almost 50 years, artists participating in the NASA art program have been documenting the extraordinary adventure of spaceflight in ways no camera could match. They have enjoyed access to some epic moments and offered their unique perspectives on what they have witnessed. The NASA art collection, shared now by the space agency and the National Air and Space Museum, stands as a reminder of pioneering years of the early Space Age and an inspiration for those who will continue our long journey into the universe. The exhibition includes approximately 70 paintings, drawings, photographs and pieces of sculpture by such artists as Annie Leibovitz, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, Norman Rockwell, Andy Warhol and Jamie Wyeth.

"After a final attempt last week, NASA has stopped trying to make contact with the Mars rover called Spirit, which was last heard from in March 2010 as the Martian winter was setting in. Hopes of hearing more from Spirit were slim even then, but there is a difference between not hearing and no longer listening. Related * Times Topic: Spam Spirit was a spectacular success. A three-month mission, beginning in 2004, turned into six years of exploration. Even the accidents were profitable. When Spirit bogged down, permanently, at a location called Troy, efforts to free it revealed unexpected subsurface sulfates, which scientists believe are part of the Mars water cycle. "

"This time-lapse video of a Boeing manufacturing facility is pretty awesome, if you're into watching "how it's made" type stuff or if you like to see sped-up footage of people. I recommend keeping the volume down and making up your own sound effects starting at 1:03, when employees begin to test everything on the plane. "

This is really time lapse photography as the journey to the launch pad takes 5-7 hours and it is sped up to only a few minutes.

"¡Saludos!/Salutations! We welcome you to read our featured profiles of diverse Latina women working at NASA centers across our nation - just click on their names below. "

The Women of NASA (WON) Langley Reseach Center (LaRC) website! The WON LaRC website showcases diversified, professional (civil service) women from NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) many of which support NASA outreach programs such as the LaRC Federal Women's Program Committee, the LaRC Speakers Bureau, the HEP@NASA LaRC program, and LaRC Diversity Awareness Committee. Read the WON profiles of the diverse women working at our NASA center and some of the reviews from their student/teacher/parent visitors. Don't forget to frequently visit this page to read about the latest participants since this list of profiles is sure to grow!

Follow the Desert RATS Team During Analog Testing The NASA Desert Research and Technology Studies team, also known as Desert RATS, marks its fourteenth annual field test and the first time a mission to an asteroid will be simulated. While NASA has landed astronauts on the moon and rovers on Mars, the agency is only beginning to tackle the challenges of visiting an asteroid. Desert RATS team members will conduct simulated human and robotic space exploration test activities in extreme Arizona terrain to investigate and develop realistic technical and mission-driven operations similar to those of an asteroid mission.

"About GRAIL MoonKAM GRAIL MoonKAM (Moon Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students) is GRAIL's signature education and public outreach program. It is led by Dr. Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, and her team at Sally Ride Science in collaboration with undergraduate students at the University of California San Diego. "

"NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is carrying a suite of instruments including a $32 million University of Colorado Boulder package, has provided scientists with new information that energy from some solar flares is stronger and lasts longer than previously thought. See Also: Space & Time * Solar Flare * Sun * Northern Lights Earth & Climate * Geomagnetic Storms * Atmosphere * Energy and the Environment Reference * Solar flare * Solar radiation * Corona * Geomagnetic storm Using SDO's Extreme ultraviolet Variability Experiment, or EVE instrument designed and built at CU-Boulder, scientists have observed that radiation from solar flares sometimes continues for up to five hours beyond the initial minutes of the main phase of a solar flare occurrence."

"Serving 400,000 students each year, the national network of 48 Challenger Learning Centers takes students on simulated space missions into Earth orbit, to the Moon, Mars and beyond. "

"Today NASA astronauts completed their final spacewalk, the last ever for Endeavour. During the 16-day mission, Endeavour and its crew completed NASA's part in the construction of the International Space Station. This was the 36th shuttle mission to the ISS and this was the last spacewalkers that Endeavor will ever carry to space."