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Test Your Black Hole Knowledge With a Quiz From NASA!

A black hole is an area of such immense gravity that nothing -- not even light -- can escape from it. Test your black hole knowledge with this quiz from NASA!

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Advice for Graduates From NASA Astronauts

Recent astronaut graduates share advice and encouragement for students who are graduating this year and taking off on their next big adventures.

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NASA EXPRESS, May 9, 2024 Edition

This Week the EXPRESS is highlighting… • Happy Teacher Appreciation Week • Watch Upcoming Downlinks and Apply to Host a Downlink • New STEMonstration: Momentum and Impulse • Lunar and Meteorite Sample Disk Certification Class for Elementary Educators • Shape the Future of Space Technology With NASA • Call for Proposals: NOFO for MUREP INCLUDES • And More! Sign up to receive the NASA EXPRESS Newsletter in your inbox!

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STEMonstrations: Momentum and Impulse

Did you know momentum plays a part in how astronauts appear weightless on the International Space Station? In this STEMonstration, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen explores the science involved in momentum and impulse and demonstrates how it relates to life on station! Get an insider look into the microgravity environment of the space station and how to measure mass using momentum with the Space Linear Acceleration Mass Measurement Device. Additionally, explore momentum and impulse in the corresponding classroom connection, where students will perform a drop test with three different kinds of balls on three different types of surfaces.

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Astrobiology: The Story of our Search for Life in the Universe, Issue #9

This is the story of life in the Universe—or at least the story as we know it so far. As scientists, we strive to understand the environment in which we live and how life relates to this environment. As astrobiologists, we study an environment that includes not just the Earth, but the entire Universe in which we live.

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NASA EXPRESS, May 2, 2024 Edition

This Week the EXPRESS is highlighting… • NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Mission • Celebrate Black Hole Week • Professional Development Webinar – Exploring Computational Thinking With First Woman Issue #2 • Surprisingly STEM Career Exploration: Space Waste Engineer • Bring Space Exploration to Your Classroom With NASA’s Artifacts Module • Coming Up Later This Month (Teacher Appreciation Week, In-flight Education Downlinks, International Astronomy Day, National Paper Airplane Day) • And More! Sign up to receive the NASA EXPRESS Newsletter in your inbox!

What is a Black Hole?

Check out this short video from NASA to learn what a black hole is, how they can form, and why they are so cool!

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Explore Hooray for SLS! Children’s Book and Activities

Hooray! NASA is working to send humans back to the Moon to live, learn, and explore through the Artemis campaign. As a member of the Artemis Generation, NASA invites you to be a part of the story. Hooray for SLS!, written by Lane Polak and illustrated by Heather Legge-Click, is the first in a series of children’s books that introduces young explorers ages 3 to 8 to the unique elements needed for the Artemis missions to get to deep space and the Moon, like NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. The SLS mega rocket is special. It is designed to launch astronauts and heavy payloads from Earth, sailing across a cosmic sea to the Moon and beyond. We are going! We’re traveling deeper in space than we ever have before, and that calls for a celebration. Hooray for SLS!

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NASA EXPRESS, April 25, 2024 Edition

This Week the EXPRESS is highlighting… • New STEMonstration: Thermal Energy Transfer • GLOBE Mission Mosquito Webinar: Mosquito Ecology • Webinar: 3D Thursdays for Rural Educators – NASA AEROKATS and ROVER Education Network (AREN) • NASA L’SPACE Program – Summer 2024 • Joint Polar Satellite System STEM Activity: Make a Corsi-Rosenthal Filter • Activity Walkthrough Video – Engineering Design Challenge: Safe Landing on the Lunar Surface Educator Guide • And More! Sign up to receive the NASA EXPRESS Newsletter in your inbox.

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STEMonstrations: Thermal Energy Transfer

Maintaining a comfortable temperature through thermal energy transfer plays a large role in sustaining life, both aboard the International Space Station and on Earth. In this STEMonstration, NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara explains three different ways thermal energy can be transferred from object to object to help maintain homeostasis: conduction, convection, and radiation. Learn how astronauts aboard the space station observe changes in ocean life and send their observations to scientists on Earth. In the corresponding classroom connection, students will conduct their own experiments and classify natural phenomena into one of the three types of thermal energy transfer.

As the saying goes, “one person’s trash is another person’s treasure” and at NASA, Annie Meier is that person! Annie is a space waste engineer working on technologies to convert waste into vital resources for human space travel. Trash can be used to produce important gasses and even water – commodities astronauts traveling to another planet can’t just pick up along the way.

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Surprisingly STEM: Space Waste Engineer

As the saying goes, “one person’s trash is another person’s treasure” and at NASA, Annie Meier is that person! Annie is a space waste engineer working on technologies to convert waste into vital resources for human space travel. Trash can be used to produce important gasses and even water – commodities astronauts traveling to another planet can’t just pick up along the way. Click to learn about Annie's journey.

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NASA EXPRESS, April 18, 2024 Edition

This Week the EXPRESS is highlighting… • Celebrate Earth Day With NASA Resources • New “Surprisingly STEM” Episode: Space Waste Engineer • Wallops Rocket Academy for Teachers (WRATS) • NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars – Mission 1: Discover • Shape the Future of Space Technology With NASA • NASA Virtual Experience for Students: Explore Lunabotics and Women in STEM • Virtual and In-Person STEM Engagement Sessions: NQuest • And More! Sign up to receive the NASA EXPRESS Newsletter in your inbox.

NASA's Climate Kids website tells the story of our changing planet through the eyes of the NASA missions studying Earth. Targeting kids ages 8 and up, the site is full of games, activities and articles that make climate science accessible and engaging! Earth Science, Science For Kids, Earth Day, Learning Games

NASA Climate Science for Kids!

NASA's Climate Kids website tells the story of our changing planet through the eyes of the NASA missions studying Earth. Targeting kids ages 8 and up, the site is full of games, activities and articles that make climate science accessible and engaging!

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NASA EXPRESS, April 11, 2024 Edition

This Week the EXPRESS is highlighting… • Celebrate Citizen Science Month • Make a STEM Connection: World Quantum Day • NASA Psyche Inspired Online Art Showcase • NASA HBCU/MSI Technology Infusion Road Tour • 2025 Moon to Mars eXploration Systems and Habitation Academic Innovation Challenge • Next Gen STEM 101 Train the Trainer Pilot Workshop • And More! Sign up to receive the NASA EXPRESS Newsletter in your inbox!

Explore NASA's Earth Day Toolkit

In 2024, NASA is showcasing how NASA sees Earth’s oceans like no one else. NASA and its international partners have added two state-of-the-art sensors to the satellite fleet that explore the complex connections between sea, air, land, climate, and more in ways never before possible at the global scale. Celebrate Earth’s oceans and waterways this Earth Day!