Real World: Home Improvement – Space Station Style
Join astronauts on a spacewalk to fix the solar arrays on the International Space Station, or ISS. Find out about new crew quarters, exercise equipment, a recycling system and an expanded kitchen that finally includes a refrigerator. Keep on top of what's happening on the Space Station visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
Background Information
Grades 6 through 8
- Boeing Solar Power
- NASA A Day In the Life
- NASA From Sunlight to Power: International Space Station Solar Arrays
- NASA International Space Station
- NASA International Space Station Tour
- NASA ISSLive!
- NASA Now in Space
- NASA Solar Arrays
- National Institute of Aerospace; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Solar Energy
Activities
Grades 6 through 8
- NASA STEM on Station
- NASA Teach Station
Mathematics
Grades 6 through 8
NASA Space Math The International Space Station: Follow that graph!
NASA Space Math Astronaut Bone Loss
NASA Space Math Counting Craters On the Hubble Space Telescope
NASA Space Math ISS - Orbit Altitude Changes