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Could they have brought the water to our planet?
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Shield these satellites from bad space weather!
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Help Juno reveal Jupiter's true nature.
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Gallery of people and technology
Astronauts, rockets, and spacecraft to view or print.
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Play "Missions to Planet Earth"!
Beat the computer by launching three Earth missions first.
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A story about a girl's search for another Earth.
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Help the big antennas gather data from the spacecraft.
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Build a Bubble-Powered Rocket!
How high can you make your rocket go?
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Space Place kids talk to NASA scientists and engineers.
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See the universe in Cosmic Colors.
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Dr. Marc answers questions about technology
A few words about the technologies of discovery.
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What makes laser light so extraordinary?
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Listen to black holes and other cosmic weirdness.
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Or, how a little technology goes a long way.
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Why do we need two eyes?
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Sun-powered airplane flies at record altitude!
Looks can be deceiving.
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Getting into space with no launch pad!
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Shrink a skyscaper full of squishy balls.
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Building a 3-D Map of Earth from Space!
And in only 10 days!
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LISA mission gives humans a sixth sense
If you could "hear" a black hole, what would it sound like?
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A boardgame adventure!
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What do tortillas and rocket fuel have in common?
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How did we get from Galileo's telescope to the Hubble Space Telescope?
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It's all done with mirrors!
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How do you build a weather satellite?
Fill a truck full of weather instruments and toss it into orbit?
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Guide your spacecraft through a space maze
Print and do mazes.
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Can you keep up with the data?
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What everyday inventions came from the space program?
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Map a 3-D map of the invisible.
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Pilot the Rosetta spacecraft!
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Astronomy Club Partner Program
The benefits and how you can join.
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Download Space Place background images for your desktop.
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Buckle up for an adventure!
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Help design the Deep Space 1 spacecraft
The very first spacecraft with ion drive!
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Learn how to turn numbers into pictures!
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After all, they know only two words!
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Kids' visions for the New Millennium
Technology-inspired art and poetry.
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Help the astronauts go back to the Moon.
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What hears a whisper a billion miles away?
Ears the size of football fields?
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Hear tiny sounds with a Super Sound Cone!
Hear tiny sounds you never noticed before!
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Build your own mountain, then map it.
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Test a new spacecraft material
Crush a can without touching it!
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Stump your friends with your mosaic robot puzzle!
See space robots in action.
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"Emoticonstructor" at Your Service!
Let the Emoticonstructor "evolve" a face to match your mood!
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Match LIGHT faces with HEAT faces!
Faces look different in infrared light.
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Make a Balloon-powered Nanorover!
A fun project to do with the family.
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Find out why stars aren't all the same color.
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Race the rising thermometer as you unjumble heat words.
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How can a toy help with space travel?
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How to yell across a solar system
How spacecraft send pictures through space.
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See a giant rose-covered space robot!
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What can read a newspaper from a mile away?
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Telling a pine from a maple ... from space!
What if every kind of tree were a different color?
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A close encounter of the AutoNav kind!
Could you hit a soccer goal on the Moon?
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Does your nose know enough for space travel?
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Get your Gummy Greenhouse Gases!
Make pollutants from gumdrops, then gobble them up!
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You will get a charge out of this activity!
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The Three Little Piggy-back Satellites
Toss them into orbit like Frisbees!
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So many possibilities. How to choose?
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A trip to the Land of the Magic Windows
The windows show the Universe in all its colors.
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Do a HUMONGOUS telescope crossword!
Learn about the largest light telescopes in the world.
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A story about stuff that's almost not there!
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Do a crossword and see 3-D pictures of Earth from space!
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One place you don't want to have a dead battery!
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Launch a rocket from a spinning planet
Wind up that launch pad!
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Space Place apps for iPhone and iPad
Download games for your mobile phone!
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Follow Echo through Arizona on his adventure to his winter home for hibernating. This link takes you away from The Space Place. But it's very easy to come back!
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Amelia the Pigeon has a camera and photographs everything from above. This link takes you away from The Space Place. But it's very easy to come back!
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Top 10 facts about the Sun??? and lots more. This link takes you away from The Space Place. But it's very easy to come back!
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A learning center for young astronomers. This link takes you away from The Space Place. But it's very easy to come back!
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Build a model spacecraft to explore the solar system!
Paper models of your favorite solar system explorers. This link takes you away from The Space Place. But it's very easy to come back!