Photo of Patagonia from EarthKAM Mission 62 July 2018

August 28, 2018

Sally Ride EarthKAM in the Classroom

Sally Ride EarthKAM (SREK) is a permanent payload that takes pictures of Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) and is...

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One of the Expedition 41 crew members onboard the International Space Station, flying at an altitude of 222 nautical miles above a point in the Atlantic Ocean several hundred miles off the coast of Africa near the Tropic of Cancer, photographed this eye catching panorama of the night sky and the Milky Way on Sept. 27, 2014.

August 27, 2018

Using Space to Inspire Students to Explore

Space has inspired adults and youth alike for millennia: Staring at the stars and wondering what lies among and beyond them...

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STEMonstration on orbits by ISS crew member Scott Tingle

August 24, 2018

STEMonstration: Orbits

In this NASA STEMonstration, crew member Scott Tingle talks about the orbits of planets and of spacecraft such as the...

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August 23, 2018

A Night at the Museum: Seeker’s Beyond Human Nightlife Event

Tonight, curious minds will gather at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California for a night of wonder and...

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Sharon Christa McAuliffe, STS 51L citizen observer payload specialist, representing the Teacher in Space Project, floats forward and upward during a few moments of weightlessness aboard a KC 135 aircraft.

August 23, 2018

Teacher in Space Christa McAuliffe’s Lessons Now Available

Challenger Center, a leading science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education organization, partnered with STEM on...

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Astronaut Mark Lee tests the new backpack called Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER), a system designed for use in the event a crew member becomes untethered while conducting an EVA. The Lidar In Space Technology Experiment (LITE) is shown in the foreground. The LITE payload employs lidar, which stands for light detection and ranging, a type of optical radar using laser pulses instead of radio waves to study Earths atmosphere. Unprecedented views were obtained of cloud structures, storm systems, dust clouds, pollutants, forest burning, and surface reflectance. The STS 64 mission marked the first untethered U.S. EVA in 10 years, and was launched on September 9, 1994, aboard the Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery.

August 22, 2018

Report Discusses the State of STEM

A report from STEMconnector titled “State of STEM: Defining the Landscape to Determine High-Impact Pathways for the...

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August 21, 2018

Space Dreamers: Bringing Space Science to Students

This fall, Bryce Hilliard will start eighth grade at Farmwell Station Middle School in Ashburn, Virginia. Two years ago, after...

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STEMonstration: Nutrition

August 20, 2018

STEMonstration: Nutrition

In this NASA STEMonstration, crew member Scott Tingle discusses the importance of astronauts maintaining a nutritious diet while...

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STEMonstration on kinetic and potential energy by ISS crew member Joe Acaba

August 17, 2018

STEMonstration: Kinetic and Potential Energy

In this NASA STEMonstration, International Space Station (ISS) crew member Joe Acaba demonstrates kinetic energy (the energy an...

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Space Station Explorers visits Bancroft Elementary in Washington, D.C.

August 16, 2018

A Year of Inspiring the Next Generation of Space Explorers

the ISS National Lab and the Space Station Explorers (SSE) Consortium, a growing community of the ISS National Lab educational...

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At the 2018 ISS Research and Development Conference, high school junior Kritika Yerrapotu helped attendees choose locations to be photographed by the automated EarthKAM camera onboard the ISS.

August 15, 2018

Student Perspective: Big Dreams for a New Space Age

Kritika Yerrapotu is a junior at Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, California. In 2017, Yerrapotu wrote the speech below...

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STEMonstration of Newtons 3rd law of motion by ISS crew member Mark Vande Hei.

August 14, 2018

STEMonstration: Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion

In this NASA STEMonstration, International Space Station (ISS) crew member Mark Vande Hei demonstrates Newton’s third law of...

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