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Do-It-Yourself Podcast

Create your own podcast with NASA video and audio clips.

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In the Spotlight

STS-129 Info Orb

Help Space Kid collect orbs to learn about the STS-129 space shuttle mission.

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What Is a Satellite?

A satellite is a moon, planet or machine that orbits a planet or star.

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What's in Space?

Read this interactive storybook about the mysterious objects in space.

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Fun and Games

Kennedy Camera Spots Space Station

Watch the station in flight.
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Missions to Planet Earth →

It's you vs. the computer in a competition to plan five NASA Earth missions.
Aeronautics Memory Game

Match cool pictures of test airplanes and models.

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Stuff You Can Do

ISS Student Experiment Competition

Students in grades 5-8 are challenged to devise experiments to be conducted aboard the space station.
2010 Team America Rocketry Challenge →

Applications for this model rocket competition for U.S. students in grades 7-12 are due Nov. 30, 2009.
Send Your Name to Mars →

Submit your name to be included on a microchip that will be sent to Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, scheduled to launch in 2011.

World Book for Students

Students in grades 4-8 can use these resources for help with homework and reports.
World Book @ NASA

Middle and high school students can use these resources for research.
MyNASA

Students 13 years and older may use MyNASA to help with homework and projects relating to NASA.