In the news - Discovery space shuttle
In the news this week
Discovery flies home
Nasa’s oldest space shuttle made its final voyage yesterday after 27 years of service and 149 million miles of space travel. Discovery, which spent the cumulative total of a year in space before its final touchdown in March 2011, was secured to a modified Boeing 747 as it was transported to Washington DC from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The orbiter will now be displayed at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.
- Travel back in time with this nostalgic look at the space shuttle programme from 1981-2011.
- Explore the history of space exploration with this handy timeline from Sputnik to space tourism.
- See what the astronauts see with this beautiful image from Encyclopaedia Britannica –great for stimulating discussion about planets, stars and the solar system.
- Help your students to design a tourist brochure advertising the major sites in outer space.
- What should we send into space? Do humans belong out there? Start debating ethical and philosophical issues with this ideas pack.
- A sociological and media perspective on what makes an event ‘newsworthy’.
- Make a news broadcast in a day with this step-by-step resource.