Challenger Learning Center

Space exploration is growing and involves more than a few astronauts. Today we learn about some of the missions of the past and what is ahead, from radioactive rocks to finding water and ice.

ST.1.B.6-8 a.Identify the link between technological developments and thescientific discoveries made possible through their development (e.g.,Hubble telescope and stellar evolution, composition and structure ofthe universe; the electron microscope and cell organelles; sonar andthe composition of the Earth; manned and unmanned space missionsand space exploration; Doppler radar and weather conditions; MRIand CAT-scans and brain activity)