Unit E: Space Exploration

Learn how astronauts survive in the International Space Station.

Learn about the history of space stations and how they help us learn about space.

Discover how space agencies have explored the Red Planet in the past and present and learn about the future of human spaceflight to the red planet.

Discover some background information on how we'll learn to live and work on the Moon - and beyond!

A career in engineering would let you help people through designing and implementing the things they use in their daily lives.

Learn about how spacecraft have helped us learn about our Solar System.

Learn about a new material for spacesuits and the engineer who designed it.

Learn about where and when to find meteoroids, meteors and meteorites.

Design and build a model space probe.

Resource page including articles and career profiles related to physics and aerospace.

Visible light is only part of what astronomers study. They use different types of telescopes to study the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

Learn about telescopes that do their work high in Earth’s atmosphere and in space.

Learn about the history of telescopes and the function of refracting and reflecting optical telescopes.

Learn about radio astronomy, a type of astronomy that studies objects in space using radio waves and radio telescopes.