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Countdown: Last Launch for Discovery
At 4:50 p.m. EST today, the space shuttle Discovery will launch into its final mission from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Watch the launch on NASA TV. Image credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller In the 11-day...
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"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth" is the first line of John Gillespie Magee, Jr.'s, poem "High Flight." The poem came to mind as I watched the video of Discovery's last launch yesterday...
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Smithsonian Museum Day 2011
Museums around the country will be offering free admission on Saturday, September 24, in honor of Smithsonian’s free Museum Day 2011. This is the seventh year that Smithsonian magazine has sponsored...
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How I Spent My Summer Vacation, Volume 1
So September is gone and we’re settled back into the pace of another school year. Although “What I did over my summer vacation” essays are usually shared in the first few days of school, I wanted to...
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How I Spent My Summer Vacation, Volume 2
Yesterday you heard from Hailee about her class trip to Washington, D.C. Today we hear from Audra, also a 9th-grader from Texas. Here are her thoughts on traveling to Washington, D.C., with her...
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NASA Asks Students to Name New Spacecraft
Photo Credit: Thom Baur, United Launch Alliance “NASA has a class assignment for U.S. students: help the agency give the twin spacecraft headed to orbit around the moon new names.” That directive comes...
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Buzz Lightyear lands at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Buzz Lightyear is going on one more adventure, albeit not as wild as his previous others, but it will be just as exciting. The well-known astronaut from the Toy Story series will be landing at the...
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Space Shuttle Discovery is on the move!
Attention visitors and residents of Washington, D.C.: today, Tuesday, April 17, you will get a once in a lifetime chance to see the Space Shuttle Discovery in mid-flight…attached to a custom 747 jet,...
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5 fun facts I learned at tour boot camp!
Fun, fast-paced, and educational may not be what comes to mind when you think of boot camp, but this is exactly how to describe boot camp for EF Smithsonian Student Travel’s new Tour Consultants! Along...
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Group Leader Frank’s free trip Florida adventure
Group Leader Frank D. and his students, and his wife, on tour in the Sunshine State (Thanks to Frank for providing all the great photos in this post.) Time to hit the road (or air, as the case may be)...
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