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1 2 3 4 Homeschooling?5 Download NASA launched Space Shuttle Atlantis free lesson plans at 20 years ago. The astronauts delivered SpaceRacers.com/grownups supplies to the International Space for preschoolers and K-2. Station to prepare for the arrival of the first permanent crew. Full Moon Mae Jemison went 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 into orbit aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992, Download coloring becoming the first pages and family games at 3rd Quarter African American SpaceRacers.com/print Moon woman in space. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Big, blue planet Neptune is at its closest approach to Earth tonight. While it will appear brighter than any NASA’s Cassini space probe ended its Pick out your 20-year journey of discovery in 2017 favorite plush cadet in other time of the year, it still looks like a tiny blue dot our Amazon store unless you have a very powerful telescope. when it dove into Saturn’s atmosphere Amazon.com/spaceracers New Moon

20 21 22 23 24 25 26 September Equinox, with equal parts daylight and nighttime, brings the first day of autumn Watch Space Racers in the Northern Hemisphere and the first day Space Quizzes on Youtube.com/SpaceRacers of spring in the Southern Hemisphere. 1st Quarter to explore fun science facts S Moon Astronaut Shannon Lucid returned to Earth on this 27 28 29 30 day in 1996 after a 188-day Mir mission, setting an NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will set a new record today for its perihelion American record for the longest stay in space and a (the point in the orbit of an object at which it is closest to the Sun) when world record for women. On the same day in 2014, it passes approximately 8.3 million miles from the solar surface, more cosmonaut Yelena Serova became the first female than 3 million miles closer than the previous perihelion in June 2020. Russian to visit the International Space Station.

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