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Category : Space sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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SSIP, Education at Its Best!.
Author: SSIP, Education at Its Best!.
Author: NASA/NSTA Space Science Student Involvement Program
Author: Life in Space
Author: Maura Phillips MackowskiPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 1683403126
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
A little-known yet critical part of NASA history Life in Space explores the many aspects and outcomes of NASA’s research in life sciences, a little-understood endeavor that has often been overlooked in histories of the space agency. Maura Mackowski details NASA’s work in this field from spectacular promises made during the Reagan era to the major new directions set by George W. Bush’s Vision for Space Exploration in the early twenty-first century. At the first flight of NASA’s space shuttle in 1981, hopes ran high for the shuttle program to achieve its potential of regularly transporting humans, cargo, and scientific experiments between Earth and the International Space Station. Mackowski describes different programs, projects, and policies initiated across NASA centers and headquarters in the following decades to advance research into human safety and habitation, plant and animal biology, and commercial biomaterials. Mackowski illuminates these ventures in fascinating detail by drawing on rare archival sources, oral histories, interviews, and site visits. While highlighting significant achievements and innovations such as space radiation research and the Neurolab Spacelab Mission, Mackowski reveals frustrations—lost opportunities, stagnation, and dead ends—stemming from frequent changes in presidential administrations and policies. For today’s dreams of lunar outposts or long-term spaceflight to become reality, Mackowski argues, a robust program in space life sciences is essential, and the history in this book offers lessons to help prevent leaving more expectations unfulfilled.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Annual Report of the Board of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction of New Jersey, with Accompanying Documents, for the School Year Ending ...
Author: New Jersey. State Board of EducationPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Technology Teacher
Author: NASA EP.
Author: United States. National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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Twenty Years of Education Transformation in Gauteng 1994 to 2014
Author: Maringe, FelixPublisher: African Minds
ISBN: 0621429155
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Twenty Years of Education Transformation in Gauteng 1994 to 2014: An Independent Review presents a collection of 15 important essays on different aspects of education in Gauteng since the advent of democracy in 1994. These essays talk to what a provincial education department does and how and why it does these things - whether it be about policy, resourcing or implementing projects. Each essay is written by one or more specialist in the relevant focus area. The book is written to be accessible to the general reader as well as being informative and an essential resource for the specialist reader. It sheds light on aspects of how a provincial department operates and why and with what consequences certain decisions have been made in education over the last 20 turbulent years, both nationally and provincially. There has been no attempt to fit the book's chapters into a particular ideological or educational paradigm, and as a result the reader will find differing views on various aspects of the Gauteng Department of Education's present and past. We leave the reader to decide to what extent the GDE has fulfilled its educational mandate over the last 20 years.
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