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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 daiy by NASA personnel.
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Winter/Spring 2009 Challenges: 
  Exploration through Navigation
Charting a Course to the Moon
February through May 2009 - Part 2

(Grades 5-8)
In this challenge, students will learn about navigation in Space.
Students awarded Moon rock and Tektites
Join us for the Final Webcast 5/7/09

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HiRISE Image Targeting Challenge
(Grades 5-14)
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NASA Quest offers a wide range of FREE online tools and resources for teachers, students, parents and others including Web and print lesson plans, educator guides and workbooks:
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LCROSS
Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite website. Be a part of in this exciting mission!
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 Smart Skies
(Grades 5-9)
Use hands-on math to avoid air traffic conflicts.
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 Astro-Venture
(Grades 5-8)
Search for and design a habitable planet.
New Modules
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What's the Difference?
(All Grades)
Interactive software allowing side-by-side comparisons.
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Virtual Field Trip (All Grades)
Multimedia application for exploration of areas on Earth identified as analog sites to regions on Mars
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  Radiation Biology Educator
Designed for pre-service and practicing high school and middle school science teachers.
Moved to NASA Ed Portal .
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Robin Whirlybird
(Grades K-4)
Learn about rotorcraft in an interactive storybook.
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  Future Flight Design
(Grades 3-7)
Design air transportation and aircraft systems.
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  Virtual Skies
(Grades 9-12)
Solve real-life air traffic management problems.
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PSA (Personal Satellite Assistant)
(Grades 5-8)
Explore math and physics with a robotic helper.
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 Flies in Space
Moscas en el Espacio

(Grades 5-8)
Step into a space biologist's shoes and predict experiment results.
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 Wings over Mars
(Grades 5-8)

Design robotic airplanes to explore and collect data on Mars.
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Students and teachers participate in exploration of scientifically interesting, remote and extreme environments on Earth as analogs for human exploration of the Moon and Mars

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