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50th Anniversary of NASA

After 50 years, NASA has a great deal to celebrate, and this site offers a rich multimedia journey through their first half-century. Things get started with an introduction by a rather friendly robot who gives a brief explanation of how to navigate the site. After that, visitors are treated to a few tunes from the 1950s (such as "Tutti Frutti") and they can click on the headquarters building to...

https://www.nasa.gov/50th/home/index.html
After its first half-century, NASA celebrates and considers the future of its work

Two halves of NASA merge at half-century http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26948872/ NASA at 50: Johnson Space Center being put to the test http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/6028850.html 50 Years in Space: NASA's Roadmap to 2058 http://www.space.com/news/081001-nasa50-road-ahead.html The Hubble Space Telescope [Real Player, Macromedia Flash...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2008/1003
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NASA Women of STEM

NASA Women of STEM is a wonderful site dedicated to celebrating women who have made contributions to NASA in the related fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. Readers will find a number of fascinating profiles, interviews, and articles about women at NASA who are engaged in a wide range of STEM fields, from teaching children about science to engineering rockets. For instance, the...

https://www.nasa.gov/education/womenstem/
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NASA: !Latinos STEM Up!

Readers may wish to revisit this resource from the 09-20-2019 Scout Report for a panel discussion between barrier breakers and STEM superstars from the Latinx community. !Latinos STEM Up! was a panel discussion hosted by NASA's Hispanic Outreach and Leadership Alliance (HOLA) on October 12, 2017, as part of HOLA's Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations. This discussion focused on "the contributions...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-N3pdOYf7Y&feature=youtu.be