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| Congratulations on a year well done!!!! What a great year we've had. I'd like to thank each and every one of you for making my space out of this world this year. I wish you all the best of luck for the future. Keep reaching for the stars and remember: Failure is not an option. I'll leave the web pages for those of you who wish to keep up with whats going on in science and with NASA. Have a GREAT summer and best of luck at Ford! Students: This is the website we listen to just about every day in science: http://www.earthsky.org My passion is manned space flight, so here's my NASA section.I have been blessed to witness manned space flight from the first moon landing to the construction of a work station in space. I hope you will take an opportunity to visit the archives of NASA and see how space travel started. It's an amazing story. It's not a miracle. We just decided to go and here we are. As you go through school and beyond and are faced with difficult challenges, the story of NASA can give great inspiration. In 1962, president Kennedy challenged America to put a man on the moon and return him safely to earth within the decade. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder of his lunar module to become the first man to set foot upon the moon. Many men and women worked hard to overcome many seeminly impossible ostacles so that man could embark on the most hazerdous and dangerous and greatest adventue in history. Please visit my other web page on the history of space flight. On this page, you will see Buzz Aldrin near the American flag he and Neil Armstrong planted on the moon. You can also see a picture of the Saturn V, the largest, most powerful rocket every built. There is also a picture of the Apollo 16 astronauts splashing down after thier trip to the moon. NASA will be going back to the moon with the Aries and Orion space vehicles. I hope one of you will make that trip some day. Below are some other websites for the space enthusiasts. http://www.nasa.gov is, of course, the best source for everything space. http://www.space.com is a great source as well. Anytime you want to watch a shuttle launch or keep up with what is going on during a launch, log onto NASA's site and click on "watch nasa tv" link. You can watch the mission 24 hours a day through the eyes of mission control and the astronauts themselves. You'll get to watch the earth fly by beneath you just like the astronauts do and watch the men and women of mission control as they work the current mission. The Shuttle program will end in 2010, so experience what you can before its gone! You can track the space shuttle (as well as the Hubble Telescope and other satellites) by logging onto http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/ Did you know that you can see satellites at night? Just watch the skies very closely and you will surely see one go across the night sky - they look like tiny stars moving very slowly way way up there. The ISS is nearly complete. You can track the ISS on the website above and find out who is up there at any given time. You can track it and find other information on it as well at http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/ Make sure you read up on NASA's future plans to return to the moon! http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/main/ http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/mercury/mercury.html Find out what phase the moon is in tonight at http://imagiware.com/astro/moon.cgi If you are interested in the Cold War Era, please check out my husband Eric's Virtual museum at http://www.civildefensemuseum.com/ Yes! He really has all that stuff and has been interviewed in magazine, newspapers and even on the news - its truly an amazing collection. E-mail me at:Maryann Green |
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