Space Resources
Primary and Secondary School Space Resources.
Our aim here at SATRO is to inspire and enthuse young people in their understanding of STEM subjects and careers. Our activities and events encourage students to challenge their perceptions and look at new innovative ways of thinking as they learn.
Our team have selected this material for you with those aims in mind. We hope it will continue to inspire your interest in STEM.
What we provide on this page links to existing websites and materials, recognising their ownership and responsibility for the content. We are not recommending any particular information source, rather we are trying to expand your horizons in looking for information that will be of interest to you.
Space
Introduction to Space
Space is everything in the universe beyond the top of the Earth's atmosphere - the Moon, where the GPS satellites orbit, Mars, other stars, the Milky Way, black holes, and distant quasars. Space also means what's between planets, moons, stars, etc - it's the near-vacuum otherwise known as the interplanetary medium, the interstellar medium, the intergalactic medium, the intra-cluster medium, etc; in other words, it's very low density gas or plasma ('space physics' is, in fact, just a branch of plasma physics!).
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Famous Astronauts
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Resources - Primary Schools
- Apollo 13: "Houston, we've had a problem"
- What Is The Everyday Life of An Astronaut in Space Like?
- 10 Facts about Space
- Space Volcano Explorer
- Space Games
- Top 10 Cool Things about Stars
- What's In Space?
- The Planets for Kids
- A view of Earth from the International Space Station
- EVA space suits for working outside the space station
- 20 Things we would have without space travel
- Voyager 1 probe in interstellar space
- NASA
- European Space Agency
- Astronaut facts
- 2020 SpaceX a view from inside the Dragon spacecraft
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- Astronomer
- Electronics Engineer
- Earth Observation Scientist
- Planetary Scientist
- Spacecraft Operators
- Aerospace Engineer
- Meet a Senior Research Engineer at NASA
- Meet a NASA Engineer working on Mars Landings
- Meet a chemical engineer working on astronaut's rubbish
- Meet an environmental engineer working at NASA
Resources - Secondary Schools
- Apollo 13: "Houston, we've had a problem"
- What Is The Everyday Life of An Astronomer in Space Like?
- The mental challenges of living in space
- At Home on the International Space Station
- Space Facts
- Facts About Stars
- STEMonstrations
- Interesting Facts about The Planets
- Removing junk from space
- Making a music playlist for the stars
- Fixing and building things in space
- Satellites in space: types and uses
- Remote sensing of the environment
- 100 uses of Earth remote sensing
- The women of NASA
- How rockets work
- Orbits
- 15 Space age inventions and technologies we use everyday
- A brief history of Mars landings
- Voyager 2 probe enters interstellar space
