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Suited for Spacewalking
An Educator's Guide with Activities in Science, Mathematics, and Technology EducationThis guide begins with brief discussions of the space environment, the history of spacewalking, NASA's current spacesuit, and work that astronauts do during spacewalks. These are followed by classroom activities and a design brief that challenges students to design a spacesuit prototype for a Mission to Mars.
Download the units (all files are PDF):
Download the entire Suited For Spacewalking (100 pages - 5.2 MB) or download the sections you want below...
- Introductory Materials - cover, title pages, table of contents, etc. (1.1 MB)
- Earth and Space (308K)
- The Outer Space Environment (224K)
- Spacewalking History (980K)
- The Space Shuttle EMU (708K)
- Working in Space (588K)
- EVAs on the International Space Station (612K)
- Future Spacesuits (688K)
- Activity Introduction (292K)
- Design Brief (192K)
- Interface Control Document (master) (100K)
- Interface Control Document (sample) (140K)
- Teacher Tech Briefs (1.2 MB)
- Exploration Briefs (580K)
- Idea Bank (388K)
- Glossary (224K)
- References (216K)
- Concluding Materials - NASA Educational Resources, Go For EVA, Evaluation Reply Card (420K)
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Last modified by Nathan Smith - 18 July 2002