Education and Public Outreach

World Space Week ( Oct 4th – 10th ) — Join the Fun!

October 4, 2011

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter What is World Space Week? Founded in 1981, World Space Week Association is one of the world’s oldest space education organizations. As a partner of the United Nations in the global coordination of World Space Week, WSWA recruits and supports a [...]

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Student Alert: GRAIL Naming Contest – Essay Deadline November 11

September 29, 2011

Student Alert ! – Here’s your once in a lifetime chance to name Two NASA robots speeding at this moment to the Moon on a super science mission to map the lunar gravity field. They were successfully launched from the Earth to the Moon on September 10, 2011. Right now the robots are called GRAIL [...]

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How a Rubber Chicken is Spreading the Word about NASA, Space Missions and Science

May 6, 2011

Here’s a headline you don’t see too often: “Rubber Chicken Turned NASA Mission Mascot Embarks on a Flight to Space.” Seriously, this is a true story. If you’ve not heard of Camilla Corona, or Camilla SDO as she is sometimes called, you probably haven’t been paying attention to one of the most exciting current space [...]

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