STEM

Sequester Cancels NASA Outreach

March 22, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter   Well, it looks like it’s finally happened: the U.S. sequester – a “series of across-the-board cuts to government agencies totaling $1.2 trillion over 10 years” (CNN) — has finally hit NASA… right where it hurts, too: in public outreach and STEM [...]

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Chaos and Education at 120,000 feet for Camilla the Rubber Chicken

May 1, 2012

In my travels, I’ve had the pleasure of regularly meeting up with Camilla the Rubber Chicken, the social media maven and mascot for NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. But lately I’ve been seeing here virtually everywhere — on television, splashed across all sorts of websites, and even in my local newspaper. What Camilla does is try [...]

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Historic Opportunity for Students to Participate on “Extra” Shuttle Mission

February 8, 2011

A new opportunity for students to be part of history and fly an experiment on what could be the last space shuttle mission has been announced by the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) for the STS-135, the shuttle mission that might fly in June of 2011. “We hope to get 50 communities and 100,000 students [...]

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