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2. Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center - Wikipedia

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   The Christa McAuliffe Space Center (known as the McAuliffe Space Center or CMSC ), in Pleasant Grove, Utah, teaches school children about space and is visited by students from around the world. [1] It has a number of space flight simulators . The center, named for educator Christa McAuliffe, who was killed in the Challenger disaster, was ...

3. Space Camp (United States) - Wikipedia

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   Space Camp is an educational camp in Huntsville, Alabama, on the grounds of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) museum near NASA 's Marshall Space Flight Center. [1] It provides residential and educational programs for children and adults on topics such as space exploration, aviation, and robotics. Run by the Alabama Space Science Exhibit ...

4. Mae Jemison - Wikipedia

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   Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. Jemison joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1987 and was selected to serve for the STS-47 ...

5. Students for the Exploration and Development of Space

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   Endowment. USA: $1,290,000. Website. seds.org, ukseds.org, sedsturkiye.com. Students for the Exploration and Development of Space ( SEDS) is a non-profit international student organization whose purpose is to drive space advocacy of space exploration and development through educational and engineering projects.

6. Center for the Advancement of Science in Space - Wikipedia

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   The Space Station Explorers program includes opportunities for students to launch their own projects into space. Some of the Space Station Explorer experiments have allowed students to observe genetic changes in astronauts' DNA, [17] learn how bacteria grows differently in space, [8] and track the development of tadpoles into four-legged frogs.

7. Student Spaceflight Experiments Program - Wikipedia

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   In the first fourteen SSEP flight opportunities, 86,800 students in grades 5 through 16 (senior undergraduate in the U.S. higher education system) participated in experiment design and proposal writing. Of 18,759 proposals received, a total of 240 experiments were selected for flight, with one from each community participating in each flight ...