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Categories:  Student Use, Teacher Use, Web-Based Learning, Exploration Brief Description: NASA Quest Challenges are FREE Web-based, interactive explorations designed to engage students in authentic scientific and engineering processes. The solutions relate to issues encountered daily by NASA personnel.

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"This collection of more than 9000 NASA press release photos spans the American manned space program, from the Mercury program to the STS-79 Shuttle mission. This site includes both a full text search and a simple browse tool to help you find the photos you're looking for. We've been upgrading our site. We've added bookmarkable photo pages, improved search and browse navigation, and more! There is currently a project underway to migrate some Press Release photos to NASA's Human Space Flight Web. If you do not find what you are looking for here, try the Human Space Flight Web Gallery, at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery."

"The JSC History Portal offers access to the JSC History Collection, other JSC history materials, and hundreds of NASA history web pages."

"The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) emerged in some measure because of the pressures of national defense during the cold war with the Soviet Union, a broad contest over the ideologies and allegiances of the nonaligned nations of the world in which space exploration emerged as a major area of contest. From the latter 1940s, the Department of Defense pursued research and rocketry and upper atmospheric sciences as a means of assuring American leadership in technology. A major step forward came when President Dwight D. Eisenhower approved a plan to orbit a scientific satellite as part of the International Geophysical Year (IGY) for the period, 1 July 1957 to 31 December 1958, a cooperative effort to gather scientific data about the Earth. The Soviet Union quickly followed suit, announcing plans to orbit its own satellite."

"Chronology of Selected Highlights in the First 100 American Spaceflights, 1961-1995"

"On July 20, 1969, the human race accomplished its single greatest technological achievement of all time when a human first set foot on another celestial body."

"Advanced Search Search Tips Can't find it? Welcome to the International Space Archives, a digital library containing the best of the incredible imagery created by our planet's exploration of the universe. These images come from a variety of sources including NASA and other national and private space programs. We value your feedback and encourage you to comment on the site as we continue to build this unique online archive. Some of the imagery in the International Space Archives is available for commercial licensing. For further information, please contact us. Featured Images"

"Gallery Banner Beginning in 1946, two XS-1 experimental research aircraft (later redesignated X-1s) conducted pioneering tests at Muroc Army Air Field (now Edwards Air Force Base) in California to obtain flight data on conditions in the transonic speed range. These early tests culminated on October 14, 1947, in the first piloted flight faster than Mach 1.0, the speed of sound. The XS-1 was the first high-speed aircraft built purely for aviation research purposes. The model was never intended for production. The XS-1 was designed largely in accordance with specifications provided by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) [now National Aeronautics and Space Administration], paid for by the Army Air Forces, and built by Bell Aircraft Inc. The XS-1 #2 (serial number 46-063) was flight tested by the NACA to provide design data for later production high-performance aircraft. The research techniques used in the X-1 program became the pattern for all subsequent X-craft projects. The NACA X-1 procedures and personnel also helped lay the foundation of America's space program in the 1960s. The X-1 project defined and solidified the post-war cooperative union between U.S. military needs, industrial capabilities, and research facilities. The flight data collected by the NACA in the X-1 tests then provided a basis for American aviation supremacy in the latter half of the 20th century. As a result of the X-1's initial supersonic flight, the National Aviation Association voted its 1948 Collier Trophy to be shared by the three main participants in the program. Honored at the White House by President Truman were Lawrence "Larry" Bell for Bell Aircraft, Captain Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager for piloting the flights, and John Stack of NACA for the NACA contributions. "

"The activities in this guide promote problem solving, communication skills and teamwork. Earth and space science subjects include lunar geology and regolith, distance to the moon, Apollo landing sites and life support systems. "

"Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. "

Categories:  Student Use, Teacher Use, Simulations Brief Description:  Offers some excellent simulations for use in Google Earth. The latest simulation that they've released is based on NASA's Perpetual Oceans. NASA Ocean Currents in Google Earth shows the Earth's constantly moving ocean currents. 

detailed pictures of Mars