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==Learning Activity 8-B-1: Local History Project==

Local History Project - Mission Possible - **Completed**
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==Learning Activity 3-D-2: Local Documents, Data, and Cartoons==

NASA Now & Then - The difference in the space program excitement in the beginning than the end. []



The Mars Probe and Discovery of Water []



President John F. Kennedy addresses Congress concerning the goal of sending a man to the moon and returning him safely to the earth.

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Invitation to Apply as Research-Astronaut-Candidate - Introduction to the requirements for entering the space program - []



Samples questions from test to become an Astronaut []



Right Stuff - Wrong Sex - Women trained and applied for Mercury project - Discuss the acceptance of women as astronauts in later years.

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 * "The President (Richard Nixon) held an interplanetary conversation with Apollo 11 Astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin on the Moon."**//--President Richard Nixon's Daily Diary, July 20, 1969 --//
 * A portion of President Nixon's Daily Diary listing the telephone conversation**
 * with Apollo 11 astronauts on the Moon, July 20, 1969**

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NASA's FY Budget for 1969

[|http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4214/app2.html#1969]

NASA's FY Budget for 2011 -- Students compare budget from 1969 (putting a man on the moon) to the budget of 2011.

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Link to Orlando Sentinel Pages concerning Moon Landing - July, 1969

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Learning Activity 4-D-1: Local Photos and Posters
**Kennedy Space Center**



NASA's Kennedy Space Center is located in Brevard County on Florida's east coast. KSC is one of 10 NASA centers and serves as America's Spaceport. Space shuttle launches are visible for miles around and draw thousands of visitors. The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex offers tours, exhibits and even lunch with an astronaut. The Kennedy Space Center offers tremendous discounts for classroom visits. Teachers always have free admission to Kennedy Space Center.

RECENT NEWS: With the space shuttle program coming to an end, many jobs in the area are being lost. .................... CAPE CANAVERAL - The Boeing Co. plans to assemble and operate its commercial manned space capsule at Kennedy Space Center, bringing 550 jobs to the space coast by 2015 – if Congress cooperates. []

**MERCURY**
Photos of original Mercury 7 astronauts in 1961 and 2011. Fifty-year photo plus 6 other photos showing Alan Shepherd, John Glenn, and the Mercury capsules/rocket are on the Orlando Sentinel's website at the link below. These photos will be used to show the progression of the space program from the Mercury project of the 50's and 60's to the Apollo program to the Shuttle program.

Mercury Astronauts 1961 - Mercury Astronauts 2011 Alan Shepherd (first man in space)

John Glenn (first man to orbit the earth)

Many changes were made from the beginning of the space program to the Shuttle program from capsule and Shuttle design to the design of the space suit.

Mercury space suits/crew Mercury Capsule

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**APOLLO**
Neil Armstrong's spacesuit


 * Apollo Space Suits Poster -** Students will compare the space suits of the Mercury Program to the space suits of the Apollo program as well as the changing space suits of the Shuttle program.

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Endeavor docked at Space Station --- It was "the ultimate photo op" as Expedition 27 crew member Paolo Nespoli, inside the departing Soyuz TMA-20 capsule, snapped pictures of the International Space Station with shuttle Endeavour docked at the orbiting complex. Photos: NASA

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Atlantis Discovery  Endeavor



Challenger - Challenger Crew --- Challenger Explosion



--- Columbia -- Columbia Crew -- Columbia Explosion

Five orbiters made up the Shuttle Fleet --- Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavor, Challenger, and Columbia. The Challenger and Columbia were a national disaster when the Challenger exploded soon after lift-off and the Columbia exploded on return to the earth's atmosphere. Billboard displayed after Challenger tragedy of January 28, 1986 Students discuss the purpose and meaning of the billboard. []

During the early flights of the space shuttle, astronauts wore a brown flight suit. Like earlier missions, this flight suit was meant to protect the astronauts if the cabin pressure failed. Its design was similar to the earlier flight suits of Apollo.
 * SPACESUITS**



As shuttle flights became more routine, the astronauts stopped wearing pressurized suits during liftoff. Instead, they wore light-blue coveralls with black boots and a white, plastic, impact-resistant, communications helmet. This practice was continued until the Challenger disaster.



After a review of the Challenger disaster, NASA started requiring all astronauts to wear pressurized suits during liftoff and re-entry. These orange flight suits are pressurized and equipped with a communications cap, helmet, boots, gloves, parachute, and inflatable life preserver. Again, these space suits are designed only for emergency use -- in case the cabin pressure fails or the astronauts have to eject from the spacecraft at high altitude during liftoff or re-entry.



**DIAGRAMS**

These diagrams will be used to show the progression of the design of the space capsules of Merucy and Apollo to the Shuttle. Students will be asked what changes they see being made through the years from one program to the next. []
 * Mercury - Gemini - Apollo**
 * Shuttle**

==Learning Activity 5-D-1: Local Audio and Music==

The two audio clips below are of John Glen at his ticker tape parade in NY after his orbit around the earth and of NASA's recap of the trajectory of Gordon Cooper's Faith 7 craft.
**John Glenn – Ticker Tape Parade – NYC -**

On March 1, 1962, New York City honored astronaut John Glenn by showering him with a 3,474 tons of ticker tape to celebrate his return from his first space flight. Aboard Friendship 7, Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. Following the historic parade, Glenn expresses his gratitude to the thousands of spectators gathered at City Hall.

[|http://www.history.com/topics/john-glenn/audio#john-glenn-at-tickertape-parade]

**NASA recap Faith 7 - Gordon Cooper**

Thirty minutes into the Faith 7 Space flight, a NASA spokesperson recaps the trajectory of the craft after it was launched into the orbit just after 8:00am on May 16, 1963. On board was Gordon Cooper who became the first American astronaut to spend over 24 hours in space.

[|http://www.history.com/audio/flight-of-faith-7-spacecraft#flight-of-faith-7-spacecraft]

===The two audio clips below are of the crew of Apollo 8 - the mission that flew over the moon, and President Johnson addressing the crew of Apollo 8. These clips would be used as primary sources for students to actually hear the first conversations from space with the president of the United States.===

Live from the Moon audio of Apollo 8 over moon []

A message from the President (Johnson) to Apollo 8 []

=== Use of music to awaken astronauts on space missions dates back at least to the Apollo Program, when astronauts returning from the Moon were serenaded by their colleagues in mission control with lyrics from popular songs that seemed appropriate to the occasion. ===

[[file:wakeup%20calls.pdf]]
==Learning Activity 6-D-1: Local Video and Maps==

Use the following for a discussion of why it was important for America to put a man in space - how might the first American in space might feel being the first in space and all of the uncertainty.

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 * Alan Shepherd in capsule - First American in space.**

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 * Freedom 7 Alan Shepard Launch May 5 1961 **

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 * Kennedy’s Address to Congress to put man on moon – May 25, 1961**

[|http://www.history.com/topics/john-glenn/videos#the-first-space-shuttle-flight]
 * What happens before a shuttle launch? The Columbia being taken to the launch pad. A behind the scenes look for students to see what happens before the launch occurs.**

[|http://www.history.com/topics/john-glenn/videos#space-shuttle-the-last-mission]
 * A decade after America put the first man on the moon, a new era in space began – the Shuttle program. A brief history of the shuttle fleet from the first launch to the last.**

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 * Introduction of the Mercury astronauts - the original footage of the introduction of the first Mercury astronauts.**

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 * Local Television station** (Orlando, FL) **WESH 2’s 25-year Challenger special. Students will hear the 1st teacher in space as well as a synopsis of the training and launch of the ill-fated Challenger**

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 * Topographical and Relief Maps of the Lunar Surface. Students will explore the relief of the moon and located selected places on the moon using latitude & longitude.**

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