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History. The National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program was established in 1988 by the US Congress following the success of similar scholarship opportunities in the oceanic Sea Grant and agricultural Land Grant fields. The catch-all term Space Grant refers back to these previous federal programs. In 1989, the program was given over to ...
History. The program was launched in June 2010, by NCESSE in the U.S. and by the Clarke Institute internationally. As of 2018, SSEP has sponsored fourteen missions to LEO – two on board the Space Shuttle, and twelve to the ISS – with a thirteenth mission to the ISS announced in March 2018, and expected to fly in the spring/summer of 2019.
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 ...
The Rose Center for Earth and Space is a part of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The Center's complete name is The Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space. The main entrance is located on the northern side of the museum on 81st Street near Central Park West in Manhattan 's Upper West Side.
Staten Island Zoo. Kids under two can scope out Staten Island's eight-acre collection of more than 1,100 animals for free. If you plan your visit for a Wednesday afternoon, between 2 and 4 p.m ...
The Summit School is a state funding approved private, special education day school in Queens, New York, United States. Established in 1968, it operates two sites near the St. John's University campus; the Lower School, which educates elementary and middle school students, utilizes space in the Hillcrest Jewish Center in Utopia, and the Upper School serves high school students in Jamaica Estates.
Kopernik Space Center. / 42.0021°N 76.0335°W / 42.0021; -76.0335. The Kopernik Observatory & Science Center (KOSC), is a public observatory in Vestal, New York opened to the public on 16 June 1974 by the Kopernik Society of Broome County to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus ( Polish ...
Space Camp was the first of the camp programs offered, and is used as the umbrella organization name. The Space Shuttle Pathfinder is a Space Shuttle simulator based at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. Space Academy is a program intended for ages 12–14, offered in six-day sessions. Advanced Space Academy is designed for 15 to 18-year-olds.