Handbook Cool Hidden Stuff
SPACE EDUCATORS' HANDBOOK COOL HIDDEN STUFF
Many innovative and unique space education resources are sub-links from top
level items featured in the main pages of the Web version of the SPACE EDUCATORS'
HANDBOOK. The purpose of this page is to list these "cool" items for space
educators "surfing" the HANDBOOK.
Hidden Cool Stuff
Did you know about the missing day in time?
NASA technology assisted in
judging the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin.
A weekly newspaper reported that the
Apollo 11 lunar landing was a hoax.
Children sent encouraging notes
to NASA after the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.
Much more about the rescue of
Apollo 13 in April of 1970.
You can read the flying
instructions issued with the 1911 Custiss Pusher airplane.
Read an explanation
about the science of eclipses of the Moon and Sun.
Read about the death of a star.
This year has an extra day. Read about the
reason for February 29th, 1996.
Read about astronomer John Herschel
and how he discovered the planet Uranus in 1781.
Read how volcanoes were discovered on
Jupiter's moon IO in 1979.
Have you wondered how materials
can be manufactured in space? Read about it.
Robotic clones of people appeared at a famous space center.
Read about it.
Did you know that in 1986 Halley's Comet made its closest
approach to Earth until 2061. Read about it.
What is a "Gamma Ray Observatory"?
Did you know that the makers of the craft which rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts
(April 1970) sent a bill for a tow charge
to the makers of the crippled "mother-ship" for thousands of dollars?
Read the story of Newton's life.
Become an expert on the stars in the sky.
Why did Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton,
and Kenny Rogers come to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas?
What was the Magellan program?
What famous comic strip characters
travelled to the Moon?
What famous science
fiction character discussed the science of orbiting the Earth
three years before the launch of the first orbiting spacecraft?
Kepler did more to explain the science of orbits than
any other person. Read about his
discoveries.
The first American manned spaceship
called Mercury has a patent. Here is the
official patent sketch of the spacecraft.
How and why did the Challenger explode?
Read about the first man to cross
the United States by airplane.
Read about the astronauts communicating by HAM RADIO
with operators on Earth.
Who launched the first "hand-deployed"
satellite into orbit?
What famous flight
orbited the Moon on Christmas Eve?
What is most remembered about this flight?
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