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Lesson Plan June 21 2021

Learn from NASA how to invent for any environment

Experiment with engineering in changing environmental conditions

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity makes its first flight

Daily News Lesson April 20 2021

Ingenuity’s flight on Mars rings in a new era of aviation

Watch the first remote controlled flight on another planet.

Undated illustration handout of Perseverance rover being lowered to Martian surface by jet-powered "sky crane" descent vehicle

Daily Video February 19 2021

Classroom Resource: NASA rover lands on Mars, resuming search for remnants of life

Discuss the significance of NASA's latest mission to Mars.

SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from historic launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center i

Lesson Plan May 28 2019

Lesson plan: How invention will land humans on Mars

Using the invention process, students will explore solutions to some of the problems facing the Mars mission and decide whether or not they are on board with expanding humankind’s reach in the universe

Daily Video September 29 2015

Life on Mars? NASA discovers evidence of water

NASA has discovered evidence of water on the surface of Mars, raising the potential for life on the planet.

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