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Apollo Resources

Mission Control

Use these resources to view Web Articles:

1.  Explore the Apollo Explorer web site. Learn about each Apollo flight. Photographs may also be found here.

http://apolloexplorer.co.uk/bymission.htm

2.  This is an interactive web site in which you may see images of the Saturn V rocket used to launch the Command Module and LEM. as well as images of the Command Module and LEM. Be sure to click on the links entitled, "The Launch," "The Journey," and "The Landing."

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/space/apollo11/launch.htm.

3.  This is the complete history of Apollo missions:

http://thespaceplace.com/history/apollo2.html

5. Discover what types of training Apollo astronauts had in order to make a moon landing.

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/About/AstroHistory/astronauts.html

6. The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal web site includes commentaries and photos of the Apollo missions.

http://hq.nasa.gov/alsj/frame.html

7.  Experience the dangers of space travel:

http://elwood.k12.nf.ca/sciencepages/ballm/apollo/apollo1.htm

8.  Obtain background information about the Apollo missions from MSN Encarta Encyclopedia.

http://teachersnetwork.org/teachnet-lab/ps101/chornik/mission/apollo_program.htm

9.  Explore the development of the lunar module and lunar rover:

 http://fi.edu/pieces/schutte/background.html

10. Explore lunar landing sites, craters, timeline of lunar exploration, create a spacecraft at:

http://fi.edu/pieces/schutte/curriculum.html

11. Take an Apollo Mission quiz:

http://fi.edu/pieces/schutte/apollomissionquiz.html

12.  What are the top ten scientific discoveries made during the Apollo moon landings?

http://www-curator.jsc.nasa.gov/curator/lunar/lunar10.htm

13.  What were Apollo space suits like:

http://howstuffworks.com/space-suit4.htm

 

Use these resources to view photographs:

1.  View the highlights of Apollo 11 in photographs:

http://radioing.com/space/apollo11.html

2.  Photographs and a virtual flight to the moon may be found here:

http://moon.uc.edu/jul20eve.htm#intro

3.  Photographs taken at NASA including lunar and command modules and flight suits:

http://michaelp.org/photos/kennedy_space_center/

4.  View photographs of Apollo 11 astronauts, patch and liftoff.

http://space.about.com/library/images/aagrapollo11c.htm

5. Photographs of lunar landing, flight suits, views of the moon and lunar surface:

http://cnn.com/TECH/specials/apollo/index.html

Use these resources to view videos:

1.  This web site offers videos of the moon's surface, moon landings, dockings, moon experiments, and space walks.

http://moon.uc.edu/space1.htm

2. View docking and undocking of the lunar module, Spider, from the Command Module, Gumdrop, a view of Earth from the Apollo 11 Command Module during trans-lunar flight with narration by Neil Armstrong, and videos of food storage and preparation:

http://space.about.com/cs/videoapollo/

3. Share the experiences of Apollo astronauts as they check out equipment, land on the Sea of Tranquility, walk on the surface of the moon and collect moon rock samples.

http://hq.nasa.gov/alsj/frame.html

4. View pictures on a virtual tour of the moon.

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Kids/FlatStanley/

5. Learn about products that originated as products made for the Apollo mission.

http://cnn.com/TECH/specials/apollo/stories/apollo.spinoffs/index.html

 

 

Use these resources to interview an astronaut:

1.  Interview with Buzz Aldrin:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/space/apollo11/interview.htm

http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/ArmstrongNA_9-19-01.pdf

Use these resources to view astronaut patches:

1.  View Apollo patches and read about their history:

http://genedorr.com/patches/IndexAp.html

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