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My Path: From Dishwasher to Astronomer: Tom Barclay

Dr. Tom Barclay is a senior research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. He spends his days studying stars and planets and how they formed.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT5sdsaLzd0
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What’s New in Aerospace: Mars Rover Concept Vehicle Visits National Air and Space Museum (Jon McBride)

Check out the Kennedy Space Center Mars rover concept vehicle and hear from Astronaut Jon McBride

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Human spaceflight and Robotics
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsPS8AOjFNY&t=2s
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What’s New in Aerospace: Your Eclipse: How Can You Be Ready for the Big Day:

How can you safely view the August 21 solar eclipse? What is a solar eclipse? Where can you see this upcoming eclipse?

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Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grades 15-16, Grades 17-20, and Grades 13-14
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Astronomy
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQu-5Ydo0uQ&list=PL6RlkQnoCx_VXNkogi0tjpQlEZgkGRrrV&index=24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yai8cRqPeBo&list=PL6RlkQnoCx_VXNkogi0tjpQlEZgkGRrrV&index=25
Lecture Video

What’s New in Aerospace: What Makes Apollo 8 So Special: Author Jeffrey Kluger Explains

Jeffrey Kluger, author of “Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon” and “Time” magazine editor talks about the significance of Apollo 8

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Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grades 13-14, Grades 15-16, and Grades 17-20
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Apollo program, Human spaceflight, and Moon (Earth)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQu-5Ydo0uQ&list=PL6RlkQnoCx_VXNkogi0tjpQlEZgkGRrrV&index=24
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What’s New in Aerospace: Hear from the First Astronaut to Sequence DNA in Space (Kate Rubins)

Astronaut Kate Rubins became the first person to sequence DNA in space. She eventually sequenced over 2 billion base pairs of DNA during a series of experiments to analyze sequencing in microgravity.

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Women, Life sciences, and Human spaceflight
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRMyZ9X8iIs&list=PL6RlkQnoCx_VXNkogi0tjpQlEZgkGRrrV&index=23
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What’s New in Aerospace: On Life In Space: You See All Sorts of Crazy Things (Kathy Sullivan)

Former astronaut and recent administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Dr. Kathryn Sullivan shared the importance of satellite technologies in looking at Earth.

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Satellites and Human spaceflight
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ORAHjHrebY&feature=youtu.be
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What’s New in Aerospace: Meet Record–Setting Astronaut Jeff Williams

Jeff Williams spent 534 days in space. Hear him talk about his missions, his favorite places to photograph from orbit, and what it is like to be away from family for so long.

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Human spaceflight and Space stations
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw-qfHfm9nY&list=PL6RlkQnoCx_VXNkogi0tjpQlEZgkGRrrV&index=21
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What’s New in Aerospace: NASA Astronaut Victor Glover’s Presentation at the National Air and Space Museum

NASA Astronaut Victor Glover speaks at the National Air and Space Museum for African American Pioneers Family Day in 2017.

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Human spaceflight and African American or Black people
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https://youtu.be/RyNkj7BpAYE
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What’s New in Aerospace: The Underwater Crash Site of USS Macon

Join us as we go with the team of the E/V Nautilus as they explore the underwater crash site of the USS Macon, a rigid airship that crashed off the California coast on February 12, 1935.

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Aircraft
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9myk1iN-GY&feature=youtu.be
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What’s New in Aerospace: New Horizons at Pluto

Alan Stern, principal investigator of NASA’s New Horizons mission, shows the exciting images and science results yielded from the New Horizons mission as the spacecraft flew through the Pluto system

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Astronomy and Dwarf planets
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LOfSYJeINE&feature=youtu.be
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National Air and Space Museum

National Air and Space Museum 650 Jefferson Drive SW
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202-633-2214

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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway
Chantilly, VA 20151

703-572-4118

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