Check out special editions of Project Discovery. (From our Streamline collection)
See also Project Discovery Revisited.
Lesson
Video
This segment is a tour of a full-scale model of a shuttle. We see the cargo bay of the shuttle, the containers in which astronauts store their belongings, and the airlock where depressurization of the...
Video
Jim Gerard, an aerospace education specialists at Kennedy Space Center, discusses the astronauts becoming weightless and demonstrates a ball that, when dropped, alarms as it falls and is momentarily...
Video
This segment is about the VAB or Vehicle Assembly Building. It is 525 feet tall, taller than the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty. It is longer than two football fields put together. It...
Video
This segment is about materials that are available for teachers at the Center for Space Education.
Video
Spaceport USA is the visitor's center for Kennedy Space Center. Spaceport USA has free parking and free exhibits. The IMAX movies and the bus tour of Kennedy Space Center are the only attractions for...
Video
This segment features educational materials offered to teachers by Langley Research Center.
Video
In this segment, we meet the engineer who drives one of the two largest track vehicles in the world, the transporter. Built in 1963, the transporter is approximately 120 feet by 115 feet in width, and...
Video
In this segment, a student asks why Francis Marion is called the Swamp Fox, and the answer is given that he was one of the first to use what we now know as guerilla tactics. He would hide in the swamp...
Video
Veterans Day was originally celebrated on Armistice Day on November 11, 1918 to commemorate the ending of hostilities in World War I. The Armistice was signed by President Woodrow Wilson on the 11th...
