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Make Magazine Helps Develop Space Science Kits for Education

by Space Frontier Foundation February 28, 2011 Enablers

Make Magazine, the leading do-it-yourself publication for technology hobbyists and experimenters, is partnering with Teachers in Space to help develop space science kits that high-school teachers can build and fly on suborbital and orbital flights.

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Teachers in Space Announces Summer Workshops for High-School Teachers

by Space Frontier Foundation February 5, 2011 Cheap Access to Space

In the summer of 2011, Teachers in Space will offer five one-week professional-development workshops for high-school science, technology, engineering, and math teachers. Teachers in Space announced the workshops during the final session of the Space Exploration Educators Conference, which took place here today.

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Teachers in Space Offers Historic Flight Opportunity in 2011

by Space Frontier Foundation February 5, 2011 Education

In the summer of 2011, high-school science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers will have the chance to fly experiments on an early unmanned flight of a suborbital reusable launch vehicle (RLV). The Excelsior STEM mission was announced here today by Teachers in Space, a nonprofit project of the Space Frontier Foundation.

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Astronaut Teacher Candidate has the Wright Stuff

by Space Frontier Foundation July 1, 2010 News

As one of seven Pathfinder astronaut teacher candidates selected by the non-profit Teachers in Space program, Steve Heck plans to make history by becoming one of the first teachers to fly into space and return to the classroom. Today, however, he recreated history when he flew a replica of the Model B Wright Flyer.

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