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Beginner's Guide to Propulsion 
  
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Publisher: NASA Glenn Research Center
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This site from the NASA Glenn Research Center offers a brief introduction to propulsion with many links to explore related concepts in depth. Topics include Newton's laws, thrust,…
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/bgp.html
Spinning Brains 
  
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Spinning Brains, an article from NASA, explains the Coriolis force and how humans can adapt to it. The article discusses the concept of rotating spaceships and the research being…
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/23jul_spin/
The Blue Marble from Apollo 17 
  
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This web article from NASA's Visible Earth presents a classic photograph of Earth taken from the Apolo 17 mission in 1972, which includes the south polar ice cap. The article…
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=55418
APOD: A Tether in Space 
  
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This Astronomy Picture of the Day shows a test in which a small satellite was tethered to the Space Shuttle in 1992. Numerous wide-ranging links provide further information.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050328.html
APOD: An Ion Drive for Deep Space 1 
  
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This Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) image shows a laboratory test of the ion drive engine used to propel the Deep Space 1 exploratory probe across the solar system in 1998. The…
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap030720.html
NASA 
  
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This site is the portal for the mammoth NASA collection, featuring spacecraft descriptions, mission histories, hosts of images, and much more. A tip--use the navigation bars rather…
http://www.nasa.gov/
Apollo 16 Experiments - Fluorescence Spectrometer 
  
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This page, from the Lunar and Planetary Institute, describes how the composition of portions of the lunar surface was determined by observing the fluorescence produced by solar…
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_16/experiments/x_ra...
The Basics of Lunar Ranging 
  
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This site, from the University of California at San Diego, describes a laser ranging project whose goal is to measure the distance to the moon to within a millimeter. Included are…
http://www.physics.ucsd.edu/~tmurphy/apollo/basics.html
STEM Colorado: Galactic Communication 
  
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R. McCray and A. Koelemay
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This applet illustrates the challenges of communicating with extraterrestrial civilizations. The user is able to control the average lifetime of communicating civilizations and the…
http://scatter.colorado.edu/STEM-TPSoft/java/javaapps/civcomm2/CivCommAp...
Deep Impact Comet Mission 
  
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Find out about the mission that successfully crashed an instrumented probe into a comet. Don't miss the Image Gallery, which has spectacular images taken before and after the crash,…
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/deepimpact/index.cfm
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