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the Calendar 2014 - June 2015

www.nasa.gov EP-2014-03-021-JPL A large cumulonimbus cloud forms over Camargo, IL, heralding stormy conditions. The new GOES-R series of weather satellites will help to give people more warning time to seek shelter from tornadoes. Play “Satellite Insight” and learn more about the amazing new GOES-R series at spaceplace.nasa.gov/ satellite-insight.

Photo Credit: Melinda Swinford JUNE 2014 spaceplace.nasa.gov

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Cheese Day. On this calendar Don’t let the cheese World Environment Day. . . / stand alone. Use it in Take a look at Earth’s many means “Asteroid Potatoes.” environments. 1 spaceplace.nasa.gov/ 3 . . /asteroid-potatoes ../ gallery-earth/#geography5 7

In 1983, Pioneer 10 8 9 10 11 12 FULL MOON 13 14 Astronomer Gian Cassini The first roller coaster passed by the orbit of born in 1625. Play “Cassini opened, 1884. How does a Neptune—the furthest orbit Commander” as part of the roller coaster work? Build a in the Solar System at the “Solar System Explorer” “Newtonian Physics time. Now others are game! Machine” and find out. leaving the solar-system! . . /solar-system-explorer 9 11 . . /momentum13 . . /voyager-to-the-stars

15 16 17 18 19 LAST QUARTER 20 21 Father’s Day. Sally Ride was first U.S. Compete with Dad by woman in space, 1983. This might be a good day playing “Satellite Insight.” Women can do anything in to play “Beat the Heat”! See who can survive the NASA. Check out Space . . /beat-the-heat longest. Place Live! Summer Solstice . . /satellite-insight15 17 . . /space-place-live 19 (Summer2 begins)1

22 23 24 25 26 27 NEW MOON 28 23 25 27 29 30 A comet or asteroid exploded over Siberia this day in 1908. Was it an even bigger one that killed all the dinosaurs? 29 . . /comet-ocean The Space Place is the official children’s website of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. It can also be found at science.nasa.gov/kids. NASA’s Juno mission will arrive at Jupiter in July 2016. It will study the giant planet’s magnetic field, atmosphere, auroras, and gravity. Play Juno Quest at spaceplace.nasa.gov/ junoquest.

Image Credit: Lockheed Martin Corp./NASA/JPL-Caltech JULY 2014 spaceplace.nasa.gov

1 First U.S. zoo opened 2 3 4 5 FIRST QUARTER in 1874 in Philadelphia, PA. Earth at aphelion, the Mars Pathfinder rover Anti-boredom Month. Many zoos give homes to time of year when we are landed on Mars in 1997. Fight boredom by playing On this calendar endangered species, How farthest from the Sun. Why What award will Mars win in a games at The Space Place. . . / can satellites help these isn’t it cold if we are farthest planet contest? spaceplace.nasa.gov/ means animals in the wild? from the Sun? . . /story-planet-awards menu/play spaceplace.nasa.gov/ . . /migration1 . . /seasons3 U.S. Independence Day 5

6 7 8 9 Voyager 2 flew by 10 11 12 FULL MOON Jupiter and discovered three more moons in 1979. United Nations World Play “JunoQuest” and help Population Day. How can unravel more Jupiter Earth space missions show mysteries. humans’ effect on Earth? 7 . . /junoquest9 . . /misr-xword11

13 In 1995, the Galileo 14 15 16 17 18 LAST QUARTER 19 spacecraft released a probe destined for Jupiter's atmosphere. How else can we learn about Jupiter and other planets? . . /dr-marc-solar-system13 15 17 19

20 21 22 23 24 Amelia Earhart 25 26 NEW MOON Moon Day. Neil Armstrong born, 1897. Read about the All or Nothing Day. was the first human to walk airplane that has flown Computers understand on the Moon this day in higher than any other winged only ON or OFF. So how 1969. What did the aircraft in horizontal flight — do we get them to do so astronauts learn? on Sun power no less! much? . . /dr-marc-earth 21 23 . . /helios 25 . . /binary-code2 27 28 29 30 31

Parents’ Day. Your parents NASA was established in Apollo 15’s rover was the may find help on our 1958. The Space Place is first vehicle driven on the Parents & Educators page. just one example of Moon, 1971. See a picture . . /menu/parents-and- NASA’s commitment of the lunar rover. 27 educators to education.29 . . /gallery-earth/#moon31 The Space Place is the official children’s website of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. It can also be found at science.nasa.gov/kids. NASA's Dawn mission took a picture of a crater on the giant asteroid Vesta. It is 330 miles (530 kilometers) across. Dawn orbited and studied Vesta for more than one year. Find out more about asteroids at spaceplace.nasa.gov/posters/ #asteroids.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA AUGUST 2014 spaceplace.nasa.gov

1 2 Joseph Priestly’s experiment isolated oxygen in 1774. On this calendar Oxygen is great to breathe. . . / It also makes up part of means greenhouse gas molecules! spaceplace.nasa.gov/ . . /gumdrops 2

3 FIRST QUARTER 485 6 7 9 U.S. Coast Guard established 1790. Play Wild Friendship Day. Weather Adventure and Make star cookies with a don’t make the Coast Guard friend. rescue you! . . /star-cookies . . /wild-weather-adventure4 6 8

10 FULL MOON 1112 13 14 15 16 National Relaxation Day. Lie under a tree and watch Joke Day. Make a robot the pigeons fly by. Are they puzzle, give it to a friend, in a race home? Will they and test their sense of get lost? humor. 10 12 14 . . /pigeons . . /space-robots16

17 LAST QUARTER 1819 20 21 22 23 World first CD . Did First photograph of Earth manufactured by Philips you know some NASA from the Moon, 1966. in 1982. Use an unwanted missions use planes rather Build a Moon Habitat and CD to make a model of than rockets? imagine seeing Earth from Saturn with rings. . . /mission-chronicles/ the Moon. . . /saturn-model 18 #hansen 20 22 . . /moon-habitat

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Voyager 2 flew by Why does the Moon have Saturn in 1981. Cassini is phases at all? Get some there now. Play the Cassini Oreos and find out! commander mini-game. 31 . . /oreo-moon . . /solar-system-explorer26 28 30 The Space Place is the official children’s website of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. It can also be found at science.nasa.gov/kids. NASA's Spitzer and WISE telescopes created this image of a part of a galaxy where stars are forming. These telescopes can see a kind of light humans cannot see- infrared light. Play “Spitzer Concentration” and test your “infrared memory” on pictures of other galaxies. Go to spaceplace.nasa.gov/ spitzer-concentration

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Wisconsin SEPTEMBER 2014 spaceplace.nasa.gov

National School 1 2 FIRST QUARTER 3 4 5 6 Success Month. The Space Place has free . National Cheese Pizza resources to help students Get busy! It isn’t “Goof-off On this calendar Day. Make a Galactic be successful. Day”! There’s lots to do on . . / Mobile with the cardboard . . /menu/parents-and- The Space Place. means from your pizza. educators . . /menu/do 2 spaceplace.nasa.gov/4 . . /galactic-mobile 6

7 8 FULL MOON 9 10 11 12 13 National Grandparents Positive Thinking Day. Day. Make a Sound Cone Swap Ideas Day. Make your positive ions with your grandparent and Read some of Dr. Marc's outnumber your negative you will both hear amazing amazing facts and swap ions when you do the "Ions things! some ideas with a friend. in Action" experiment. . . /sound-cone 8 . . /menu/dr-marc10 12 . . /ion-balloons

14 15 LAST QUARTER 16 17 18 Voyager I took first 19 20 full-frame photo of Earth Luna 2 crashed on the Collect Rocks Day. and Moon together in Moon, 1959. Do you know Asteroids are big rocks in 1977. Check out other what part the Moon plays space. But how are they photos of the solar system at in a solar eclipse? different from comets? the Space Place. . . /venus-transit14 . . /posters/#solarsystem16 . . /gallery-solar-system1. . 8 20

21 22 23 24 NEW MOON 25 26 27 Crush a Can Day. Punctuation Day. Crush a can without Autumnal Equinox Punctuate your conversa- touching it in this (first day of fall). Learn tions with fun facts about experiment to test new what causes the seasons. the signs of the zodiac. spacecraft materials. . . . . /seasons22 . . /starfinder224 26 . . /soda-can-test 28 29 30 28 30 The Space Place is the official children’s website of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. It can also be found at science.nasa.gov/kids. Two images of an especially busy part of the sun taken by NASA/JAXA’s Solar Optical Telescope on the Hinode spacecraft (top) and by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (below). The sun frequently sends off explosive jets of charged particles and energy. These events can interfere with satellite communications and power grids. Play "Solar Tricktion- ary" and find out how much you know about our sun at http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/sol ar-tricktionary.

Credit: NASA/JAXA/Lockheed Martin OCTOBER 2014 spaceplace.nasa.gov

1 FIRST QUARTER 2 3 4 Energy Awareness Sputnik, the first satellite, Month. Much of the energy was launched by the we use makes pollution On this calendar Soviet Union in 1957. We and greenhouse gases. . . / have come a long way with What are those? means satellites. . . /greenhouse spaceplace.nasa.gov/ 2 . . /earth-card-game4

5 6 7 In 1959, Lunik 3 8 FULL MOON 9 10 11 took the first photo First two-way tele- of the far side of the phone conversation in Moon. Why does the Moon 1876. How do we look different throughout a communicate with faraway month? spacecraft? 6 . . /oreo-moon 8 . . /dsn-game 10

12 13 14 15 LAST QUARTER 16 17 18 Train Your Brain Day. The Launch in 1975 of . Ozone Trap-n-Zap game GOES-1, the first weather A day to give sweets to will help! Dessert Day. Make satellite to take pictures of those in need and those . . /ozone yummy “El Nino Pudding” Earth at night. Play a game you love. Make your sweets for dessert today. about the newest GOES. star shaped. 12 . . /el-nino14 . . /satellite-insight16 . . /star-cookies18

19 20 21 Thomas Edison 22 23 NEW MOON 24 25 conducted the first successful test of electric light in 1879. See what invisible light an electric light bulb puts out. 20 . . /ir-matching 22 24 26 27 28 29 30 FIRST QUARTER 31 Internet Day. Design a Celebrate by downloading mask using the International Animation some Space Place Emoticonstructor. Day. Check out our wallpaper for your . . /emoticonstructor ‘snappy’ animations about computer desktop. science. . . /menu-snap 26 28 . . /wallpaper 30 Halloween The Space Place is the official children’s website of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. It can also be found at science.nasa.gov/kids. A weather satellite named GOES-13 satellite took this picture of a huge blizzard on January 2, 2014. Read “How Do You Make a Weather Satellite” and answer all your questions about weather satellites. spaceplace.nasa.gov/story- weather-satellite

Photo Credit: NOAA/NASA NOVEMBER 2014 spaceplace.nasa.gov

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International Creative Child and Adult Month. On this calendar Try making a Cloud Mobile . . / together. means . . / cloud-mobile spaceplace.nasa.gov/ 1

2 3 485 6 FULL MOON 7 Marie Curie born in 1867. Daylight Saving Time Gunpowder Day. How A physicist, she won a X-rays were discovered in ends. How did time- much virtual “gunpowder” Nobel Prize for discovering 1895. X-ray is one kind of keeping ever get started? would it take to shoot a two new elements. NASA photon you will play with in . . /classroom-activities/ cannonball into orbit? has many women scientists. “Photon Pile-up.” #time 3 . . /how-orbits-work5 . . /mission-chronicles7 . . /photon-pileup

9 10 1112 13 14 LAST QUARTER 15 National Young Readers Day. Read and listen to Dr. First computer Marc's answers to great I Love to Write Day. microprocessor invented questions about space. How about trying a in 1971. Find out how . . /dr-marc cosmic poem? humans talk to machines. 9 Veterans11 Day 13 . . /art . . /binary-code315

16 17 1819 20 21 22 NEW MOON Have a Bad Day Day. Leonid meteor shower One way to have a bad day at maximum early this is to tour the solar system morning. What causes a looking for a better climate meteor shower? than here on Earth. . . /meteor-shower17 . . /planet-weather19 21

23 24 25 26 27 28 29 FIRST QUARTER Thanksgiving Day. National Game and Did the pilgrims on the Puzzle Week. You will find Mayflower navigate by the lots of games and puzzles stars? With our starfinders, at The Space Place. they could have. 30 . . /menu/play 25 . . /starfinder27 29 The Space Place is the official children’s website of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. It can also be found at science.nasa.gov/kids. 817 images taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity created this view. It shows the terrain that surrounded the rover while it was stationary during its most recent Martian winter. What kind of weather does this “Martian” have to endure? Find out at spaceplace.nasa.gov/ planet-weather.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ. DECEMBER 2014 spaceplace.nasa.gov

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Read a New Book Month. Pioneer 10 flew past If you haven't read it yet, On this calendar Jupiter in 1973. Play “Lucy's Planet Hunt” is a . . / “JunoQuest,” about a new real page turner. means mission to Jupiter. . . /story-lucy spaceplace.nasa.gov/ 2 . . /junoquest4 6 7 8 9 10 11 First recorded sighting 12 13 Galileo spacecraft became of Aurora Borealis, from Radio signals first trans- first to orbit an outer planet New England in 1719. mitted across the Atlantic, (Jupiter) in 1995. Learn more Learn about an especially 1901. How do radio waves about Dr. Marc’s favorite memorable aurora from carry messages? planet. 1859. . . /classroom-activities/ . . /dr-marc-solar-system 8 10 . . /shields-up #phases12

14 LAST QUARTER 15 16 17 18 19 20 First powered flight by Apollo 17, the last of the Geminids meteor shower the Wright Brothers in Apollo Moon landing at maximum early this 1903. Did their invention missions, returned to morning. What causes a just come out of the blue? Earth, 1972. Did they find meteor shower? . . /classroom-activities/ water ice on the Moon? . . /meteor-shower14 16 #history 18 . . /i-see-ice 20

21 NEW MOON 22 23 24 25 26 27 Day. If you get an iPad or Winter Solstice (first day iPhone for Christmas, we of winter). What causes have some more gifts for the seasons, anyway? you. . . /seasons 22 24 . . /ios 26 28 FIRST QUARTER 29 30 31 Time magazine named Albert Einstein “Person of the Century,” 1999. Einstein's theories predict gravitational waves. Huh? 28 30 . . /ligo-g-waves The Space Place is the official children’s website of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. It can also be found at science.nasa.gov/kids. An iceberg estimated to be 22 by 12 miles (35 by 20 kilome- ters) broke off from Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier between November 9 and 11, 2013. NASA’s Earth Science Division uses a fleet of satellites to help us understand the changes happening to our planet. Play the "Earth Mission" online card game at

October 28, 2013 November 13, 2013 spaceplace.nasa.gov/ earth-card-game.

Credit: Images taken by the Operational Land Imager onboard Landsat 8. Source: NASA Earth Observatory JANUARY 2015 spaceplace.nasa.gov

1 2 3 National Thank You Month. To thank your Galileo saw Saturn’s rings through a telescope in teachers for their On this calendar wonderful work, we have 1610. Could a spaceship . . / downloadable posters of land on Saturn’s rings? space and Earth. means . . /dr-marc-solar-system . . /posters spaceplace.nasa.gov/ New Years1 Day 3

4 FULL MOON Galileo first spots 9 10 5 6 what7 become known as 8Physicist Stephen J. Earth at perihelion, Jupiter's Galilean Hawking born 1942. He the time of year when it moons. How do these writes about black holes. is closest to the Sun. moons interact with each How does it “sound” when Just how close is Earth other and their massive a big star is swallowed by to the Sun right now? parent? a black hole? . . /seasons 5 . . /io-tides7 . . /ligo-g-waves 9 11 12 13 LAST QUARTER 14 15 16 17 Ben Franklin’s Amelia Earhart is the first birthday, 1706. Ben woman to fly solo across played the violin. Maybe the Pacific in 1935. How he played one made did her airplane stay up? during the “little ice age.” . . /dr-marc-technology11 13 15 . . /violins17

18 19 20 NEW MOON 21 22 23 24 Penguin Awareness Day. Emperor penguins migrate each year to breed. What other Martin Luther animals migrate? 19King, Jr. Day . . /migration 21 23

25 26 FIRST QUARTER 27 28 29 30 31 Mars rover Opportunity landed on Mars in 2004. Get the inside story on the latest National Puzzle Day. Mars rover, Curiosity. Unscramble beautiful . . /mission-chronicles/ “Earth-as-Art” puzzles. #milkovich25 27 . . /spuzzled29 31 The Space Place is the official children’s website of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. It can also be found at science.nasa.gov/kids. The ozone hole over Antarctica was slightly smaller in 2013 than the average for recent decades, according to data from NASA’s Aura satellite and the NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP satellite. Ozone high in the atmosphere protects us from ultraviolet light, which can harm living things. Find out about “good ozone” and “bad ozone” at spaceplace.nasa.gov/ozone.

Credit: NASA/NOAA FEBRUARY 2015 spaceplace.nasa.gov

1 2 3 FULL MOON 4 5 6 7 . The National Weather- Apollo 14 astronauts Plant the Seeds of groundhog should person’s Day. Learn to played golf on the Moon Greatness Month. Watch consult the GOES read—and make—a real in 1971. See astronauts at Space Place Live! satellites, not his weather map! work and play. interviews to find out how! shadow! . . /classroom-activities/ . . /gallery-technology/ . . / space-place-live1 . . /geo-orbits 3 #wizard 5 #astronauts 7

8 9 10 11 LAST QUARTER 12 13 14 Charles Darwin born The Great Backyard Bird this day in 1809. You will Count begins. Learn understand evolution of about how NASA keeps species after playing with track of some birds using the “Emoticonstructor.” radar. 9 11 . . /emoticonstructor ../birds13 Valentine’s Day

15 16 17 18 NEW MOON 19 20 21 Nicolaus Copernicus Engineers Week born in 1473. He thought International Mother Feb. 16-22 the center of the universe Language Day. If yours is was near the Sun. Wrong! Spanish, we have a website But where is it? just for you. 15 Presidents’ Day 17 . . /dr-marc-space19 spaceplace.nasa.gov/sp21

22 23 24 25 FIRST QUARTER 26 27 28 NASA and JAXA Introduce a Girl to launched the Global Engineering Day. Watch Precipitation World Thinking Day. Give Space Place Live! and Measurement satellite in your brain a workout and meet a “girl engineer.” 2014. How would you build go “Vec—>Touring” today! . . /space-place-live/ your own satellite? . . /vec-touring 23 25 #douglas . . /build-a-spacecraft27

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The Space Place is the official children’s website of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. It can also be found at science.nasa.gov/kids. This latest Chandra image of Centaurus A shows a spectacular jet of outflowing material — seen pointing from the middle to the upper left — that is generated by the giant black hole at the galaxy's center. This is the sort of phenomenon that NASA’s Astrophysics Division loves to explore. Learn about some of these mysteries at spaceplace.nasa.gov/menu/ space.

Credit: NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory/NASA/CXC/U.Birmingham/M.Burke et al. MARCH 2015 spaceplace.nasa.gov

1 2 3 4 5 FULL MOON 6 7 International Listening Awareness Month. Dr. Seuss was born Listening makes the world this day in 1904. If you a better place. Practice like Dr. Seuss stories, with our podcasts. you might like "Ode to spaceplace.nasa.gov/ Aerogel." podcasts 1 . . /aerogel 3 5 7

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Girl Scout Week. Girl First telephone call, Scouts can earn 1876. How do we talk to badges at The Space spacecraft way out in Daylight Saving Place! space? Time begins . . /scouts9 . . /x-ponder 11 13

15 16 17 18 19 20 NEW MOON 21 St. Patrick’s Day. World Storytelling Day. International Ask a Leprechauns are Irish Absolutely Incredible Kid Create your own zany Question Day. Visitors to folklore fairies in green. If Day. Adults write letters story to tell today! Space Place partner we meet other green telling kids how incredible . . /loopy-legends museums have asked a lot beings in space, what they are. If you visit The of good questions, and Dr. would we say about us? Space Place, you deserve Vernal Equinox Marc has answers. 15 . . /voyager-to-stars17 one! 19 (first day of spring) . . /menu/dr-marc21

22 23 24 25 26 27 FIRST QUARTER 28 International Goof-off Day. Download the iPad and iPhone games made by The Space Place. You might learn something while goofing off! . . /ios 25 27 29 30 31

On this calendar . . / means 29 31 spaceplace.nasa.gov/ The Space Place is the official children’s website of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. It can also be found at science.nasa.gov/kids. On August 1, 2010, nearly the entire Earth-facing side of the sun erupted in a tumult of activity, shown in this image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. NASA’s Helio- physics Division seeks to understand the sun and how it interacts with Earth and the solar system. Find out more about the sun at spaceplace.nasa.gov/menu/ sun.

Credit: NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory APRIL 2015 spaceplace.nasa.gov

National Humor Month. 1 2 3 4 FULL MOON Read the little book “The National Find a First Annual Planet Rainbow Day. Go to the National Reading a Road Awards.” Planets can be On this calendar “Cosmic Colors” viewer Map Day. How do homing and see the universe in pigeons find their way pretty funny when they . . / April Fool’s Day. At least teach your nose not to be far more colors than in a home? Do they read a compete. means spaceplace.nasa.gov/ fooled! rainbow! map? spaceplace.nasa.gov/ story-planet-awards . . /e-nose 2 . . /cosmic-colors . . /pigeons4

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 LAST QUARTER Encourage a Young Writer Day. Suggest they write a poem about the future and exploring space. Sunday 6 8 . . /art10

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 NEW MOON Leonardo da Vinci First Space Shuttle was was born this day in launched, 1981. See 1452. Ever wonder pictures of Space Shuttle how most inventors launches and landings. do their work? . . /gallery-technology/ . . /classroom-activities/ #rockets12 14 #history 16 18 23 19 20 21 22 24 25 FIRST QUARTER Humorous Day. You will truly test your friends’ sense of humor . Play “Missions when you give them the to Planet Earth,” an online “Robot Puzzle” to solve. card game. . . /space-robots 20 . . /earth-card-game22 24 26 27 28 29 30

Tell a Story Day. Read a couple of the storybooks on The Space Place, then make up your own story about space! 26 . . /menu/storybook 28 30 The Space Place is the official children’s website of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. It can also be found at science.nasa.gov/kids. Saturn eclipsing the sun, as seen from NASA's Cassini orbiter. NASA’s Planetary Division wants to find out what our solar system contains, how it all began, how it has changed, and whether there might be life on other planets or moons. Find out how more at spaceplace.nasa.gov/ menu/solar-system.

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute MAY 2015 spaceplace.nasa.gov

1 2 National Radio Month. What are radio waves and The first commercial jet flight took place this day, how can they carry music On this calendar 1953. Why do we need and voices? . . / spaceplace.nasa.gov/ rockets? Can’t an airplane means classroom-activities/ just keep going into space? #phases. spaceplace.nasa.gov/ . . /dr-marc-technology2

3 FULL MOON 485 6 7 9 National Teacher’s Day. National Weather Check out the interesting National Space Day. Observers Day. To classroom activity articles Build a cool model of a celebrate, go on a Wild and images on the spacecraft such as the Weather Adventure! Parents & Educators page Hubble Space . . /wild-weather- . . /menu/ Telescope. adventure4 parents-and-educators . . /build-a-spacecraft6 8

10 11LAST QUARTER 12 13 14 15 16 National Chocolate Chip Mother’s Day. Day. There are all kinds of Teach Mom to play chips, including tiny ones “Photon Pile-up.” She will for tiny spacecraft. Guide like the beautiful colors the tiny ship through a and just may beat you! printable space maze. . . /photon-pileup10 12 14 . . /space-maze 16 Volcano Mt. St. 17 NEW MOON 18Helens blew its top 19 20 21 22 23 Pack Rat Day. You may be this day in 1980. Learn a pack rat on Earth, but more about volcanoes on Benjamin Franklin, in you’d have to change your Earth and elsewhere in the 1785, announces his ways if you took a trip to solar system. invention of bifocals. Mars! . . /gallery-earth/ Why do we even need . ./classroom-activities/ volcanoes and two eyes? #marspacking . . /volcanoes218 20 22 . . /stereo-vision

24 25 FIRST QUARTER 26 27 28 29 30 President Kennedy In 1959, the U.S. announces in 1961 that Birthday in 1951 of Dr. launches two monkeys the U.S. will land a person into space and returns on the Moon by the end Sally Ride, the first of the decade. Build your American woman in them safely to Earth. own “Moon Habitat.” space. Women do lots of Monkey around in space . . /moon-habitat important jobs at NASA. by trying our Games. 31 . . /space-place-live26 . . /menu/games28 30 The Space Place is the official children’s website of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. It can also be found at science.nasa.gov/kids. This “Earth at night” image was made by combining images taken by the NOAA-NASA Suomi-NPP satellite. Build your own satellite at spaceplace.nasa.gov/build- a-spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/NOAA/JPSS/VIIRS/ Norman Kuring JUNE 2015 spaceplace.nasa.gov

1 2 FULL MOON 3 4 5 6 National Zoo and First U.S. spacewalk in Aquarium Month. Maybe 1965. How did Apollo you will see some On this calendar astronauts survive the endangered species, like . . / harsh environment of these: means space? . . /migration spaceplace.nasa.gov/ 2 . . /dr-marc-earth 4 6

7 8 9 LAST QUARTER 10 11Fermi Gamma-ray Space 12 13 Telescope launched 2008. what is it like to work on Trial TechnologyDay. this mission that observes Try out our make-believe the high-energy universe? “Ozone Trap-n-Zapper.” . . /mission-chronicles/ . . /ozone 8 10 #thompson 12

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21 22 23 24 FIRST QUARTER 25 26 27 Summer Solstice, First Celebration of the Senses Day. Day of Summer. What Day. Here are some super- Born in 1880. With no causes Earth to have sensing machines that hearing or sight, she seasons? astronomers use to to seemed to have a sixth . . /seasons explore the universe. sense, like this mission. Father’s Day. 22 . . /story-space-tools24 26 . . /lisa-g-waves 28 29 30 28 30 The Space Place is the official children’s website of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. It can also be found at science.nasa.gov/kids.