Activity packets for Scouts!
To use during a Stargazing Evening or Planetarium Show.

Welcome to the Center’s version of current events in space.
We update this area quarterly, so come back soon for the latest in space news!

Expedition 9 is currently residing on the International Space Station. Astronauts Gennady Padalka and Mike Fincke are currently living on board at the present time. They will return home in October and they will be replaced by the Expedition 10 crew of Leroy Chiao and Salizhan Sharipov for a 6-month tour of duty or something to that effect.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station
Track the excitement of the Mars Exploration Rovers!
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mer/
Cassini—Huygens mission to begin orbiting Saturn on July 1, 2004. Huygens probe will be deployed into the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon, Titan, about six months later.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm


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