Acknowledgments |
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Introduction: Space Is the Place |
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Let's Go Where No Evil Genius Has Gone Before |
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Project 1. How to Take a Heading |
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2 | (3) |
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Project 2. Make Your Own Maps |
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5 | (1) |
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Project 3. How to Determine Altitude |
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6 | (3) |
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Project 4. How to Determine Speed |
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9 | (3) |
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Project 5. How to Determine Acceleration |
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12 | (1) |
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Project 6. How to Use GoogleTM Earth |
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13 | (2) |
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Project 7. How to Get Found When You're Lost |
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15 | (1) |
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Project 8. How to Know the Lat/Long of It |
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16 | (6) |
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Project 9. How to Use a GPS Device |
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22 | (4) |
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Project 10. Waypoints, Nav Points, and End Points |
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26 | (1) |
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27 | (36) |
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Project 11. A Plan for a Rocket Fighter |
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28 | (3) |
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Project 12. How to Design Your Own Rocket |
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31 | (4) |
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Project 13. Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz, ZOOM |
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35 | (2) |
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Project 14. Build a Hydrogen-Oxide Rocket |
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37 | (2) |
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Project 15. Put Your Own Eye in the Sky |
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39 | (13) |
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Project 16. Bring 'Em Back---Rocket Recovery |
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52 | (2) |
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Project 17. Get Higher with Boosters and Multistaged Rockets |
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54 | (2) |
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Project 18. Test Before You Fly |
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56 | (1) |
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Project 19. A Plan for a Scale Rocket Glider with Remote Control |
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57 | (2) |
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Project 20. Launch Effects on Living Critters |
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Take a Left at Alpha Centauri |
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63 | (14) |
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Project 21. Night of the Trifids |
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64 | (3) |
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Project 22. Find a Starry Night |
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67 | (6) |
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Project 23. Build a Star Catalog |
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73 | (1) |
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Project 24. Explore Deep Space |
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73 | (1) |
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Project 25. Take a 3-D Adventure into Space |
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73 | (4) |
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77 | (32) |
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Project 26. Build a Radio That Doesn't Require Power |
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79 | (8) |
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Project 27. Build a Shortwave Radio |
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87 | (1) |
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Project 28. Add an Antenna |
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87 | (1) |
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Project 29. Build an Antenna for Star Listening |
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87 | (2) |
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Project 30. By Jove, Now You've Got It |
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Project 31. Use a Commercial Receiver for Radio Astronomy |
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106 | (1) |
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Project 32. Listen to the Sun |
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106 | (1) |
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Project 33. How to Graph Your Star Sounds |
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106 | (1) |
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Project 34. Group Listening |
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107 | (1) |
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Project 35. Share Your Sounds with Podcasts |
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107 | (2) |
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109 | (6) |
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110 | (1) |
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Project 37. Running SETI@home |
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111 | (1) |
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Project 38. Setting SETI@home Loose |
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112 | (2) |
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114 | (1) |
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Project 40. Building a Giant SETI Ant Farm |
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114 | (1) |
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You Can't Tell the Stars Without a Map |
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115 | (10) |
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Project 41. How to Address Your Attitude |
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116 | (1) |
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Project 42. How to Figure Degrees with Your Fingers |
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117 | (2) |
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Project 43. Create Your Own Star Map |
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119 | (1) |
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Project 44. Manage the Pleiades |
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119 | (1) |
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Project 45. How to Find a Tempest in a Teapot |
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120 | (1) |
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Project 46. Create Your Own Full-Sky Star Charts |
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120 | (1) |
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Project 47. Learn How to ``Map'' Your Telescope |
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121 | (1) |
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Project 48. Decipher Constellations |
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121 | (1) |
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Project 49. White Dwarfs, Supernovae, and Black Holes |
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122 | (1) |
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Project 50. Pick a Ride on the Tail of a Comet |
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122 | (3) |
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125 | (108) |
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Project 51. Ahoy Mates, I Spy a Star |
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126 | (5) |
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Project 52. How to Assemble a Refractor Telescope |
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131 | (11) |
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Project 53. How to Assemble a Reflector Telescope |
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142 | (12) |
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Project 54. How to Assemble a Dobsonian Telescope |
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154 | (10) |
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Project 55. Track Stars with Clock Drive |
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164 | (5) |
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Project 56. When Two Eyes Are Better Than One |
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169 | (3) |
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Project 57. Finding Celestial Bodies with a Finder |
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172 | (5) |
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Project 58. How to Assemble a Professional-Grade Telescope |
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177 | (16) |
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Project 59. Seeing Solar Sights |
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193 | (2) |
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Project 60. How to Trail Stars |
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195 | (5) |
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Project 61. Astrophotography |
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200 | (4) |
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Project 62. The Ideal Star Party Kit |
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204 | (5) |
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Project 63. Do-It-Yourself Deep-Sky Photography |
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209 | (3) |
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Project 64. Build Your Own CCD Camera |
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212 | (18) |
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Project 65. Videotaping the Night Sky |
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230 | (3) |
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Your First Job Is on Mars |
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Project 66. Mars Driver's Ed 101 |
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234 | (4) |
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Project 67. Experiment with Feet of Tread |
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238 | (2) |
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Project 68. Wheels Are for Moving |
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240 | (1) |
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Project 69. Build a Solar Power Array |
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241 | (1) |
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Project 70. Watch Out with a Sense of Touch |
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242 | (3) |
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Project 71. Move Toward the Light |
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245 | (2) |
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Project 72. Record a Martian Scream with a Sound Sensor |
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247 | (2) |
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Project 73. Make Your Own Classy Chassis |
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249 | (2) |
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Project 74. Tracking Your Movements |
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251 | (1) |
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Project 75. Give Your Rover Some Eyes |
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252 | (1) |
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Project 76. Add Night Vision to Rover's Eyes |
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253 | (1) |
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Project 77. Control Rover's Actions with a Programmable Brain |
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254 | (2) |
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Project 78. Monitor Your Sensors |
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256 | (1) |
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Project 79. Motivate Your Motors |
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257 | (1) |
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Project 80. Maintain Your Schedule |
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258 | (1) |
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Project 81. Mission: Mars (OK, Your Backyard) |
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258 | (1) |
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Project 82. Learn How to Maintain Rover's Power Supply |
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259 | (1) |
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Project 83. Program Rover to Navigate Mars |
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259 | (1) |
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Project 84. Record Mission Data |
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260 | (1) |
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Project 85. Recover Rover and Build Rover II |
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260 | (1) |
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Build Your Own ISS in Your Backyard |
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261 | (12) |
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Project 86. How to Build a Geodesic Dome |
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262 | (4) |
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Project 87. Skin That Sucker: Add an Exoskeleton to Your Spaceship |
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266 | (1) |
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Project 88. Build Your Own Solar Power Arrays |
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Project 89. Make Some Oxygen and Get Rid of Carbon Dioxide |
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Project 90. What's for Dinner? |
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267 | (1) |
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Project 91. Learn How to Distill Water |
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Project 92. Control Your Climate |
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268 | (1) |
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Project 93. Put Waste in its Place |
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269 | (1) |
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Project 94. Keep Tabs on Your Mission: Monitor Yourself |
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269 | (2) |
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Project 95. Set a Record: Spend 439 Days Inside Your Space Station |
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271 | (2) |
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You Mean the Big Dipper Isn't an Ice Cream Cone? |
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Project 96. Plan a Trip to the Moon, Alice |
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274 | (3) |
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Project 97. How to Show the Phases of the Moon |
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277 | (2) |
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Project 98. Build a Home Planetarium |
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279 | (1) |
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Project 99. Add a Meteor to Your Planetarium |
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280 | (1) |
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Project 100. Take Your Planetarium Outdoors for a Real Star Show |
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281 | (2) |
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OK, Go Make Your Own Heavenly Bodies |
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283 | (12) |
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Project 101. Write Your Own X-Files |
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284 | (5) |
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289 | (4) |
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293 | (2) |
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