Highlighted Activities

Academic year 00/01

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Under Construction: the International Space Station

This year's behind-the-scenes look at Kennedy Space Center brings you a series of webcasts and chats complete with lesson plans and will take a special look at shuttle processing in preparation for the International Space Station.

Live from NASA at the Johnson Space Center

In cooperation with JSC's Distance Learning Outpost, NASA Quest presents a series of webcasts and chats, complete with lesson plans, that focus each month on a special facet of human space exploration.

Classroom Connect Collaboration

May 7 through 11, Classroom Today features a week-long focus on the men and women of the International Space Station team. Included at the Classroom Today site are special daily puzzlers to challenge the student, and helpful tips for teachers.

Chatting with NASA People

STO QuestChats are key to the connection between students and NASA Space Team members. These chats are scheduled regularly and involve an hour in which these "experts" share their valuable time to help inspire and motivate today's youth. Additionally, we maintain a schedule of QuestChats available through all Quest projects.

Watch live Video coverage of special events like our "And now from the launch" live interactive webcasts. Archives are maintained of our past webcasts. Also, we bring you live NASA TV coverage for other primarily ISS-involved Shuttle mission launches

Space Shuttle Countdown: Landing to Launch

1999/2000 academic year, behind-the-scenes look at Kennedy Space Center brings you a series of webcasts and chats complete with lesson plans and will take a special look at shuttle processing.

Focus: the International Space Station

1999/200 academic year, monthly live tours of the International Space Station mockup and training facility.

Female Frontiers: Space Team Online joins Women of NASA and Learning Technology Channel to spotlight the upcoming Shuttle mission, STS-93, in which Eileen Collins becomes the First Woman Shuttle Commander. She and other women who pioneered their fields will inspire us to follow our dreams!

The Challenge Project: Anticipating the historic Shuttle flight STS-95 that returned John Glenn to space (Fall 1998), this project centers around a 7-day mission aboard the Scott Carpenter Space Analog Station with lessons focusing on maintaining wellness and learning throughout the aging process.

NeurOn centers around shuttle flight STS-90 with Neurolab onboard. The focus was on the men and women who made possible this mission to study the brain and nervous system in space. The "live" phase was academic year 1997/98, but the lessons and information is usable at any time.

Shuttle Simulations

In this activity, students will perform a launch simulation, do an experiment collecting data, and perform a landing with NASA-provided scripts.