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(From University Wire)
Byline: teaching children about space
With mission names like Challenger, Discovery and Expedition, it's no question where NASA has its eyes set: future accomplishments, not the past.
According to the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, U.S. space activities were always to be conducted, at least in part, for "the expansion of human knowledge of Earth and of phenomena in the atmosphere and space." It's about challenge.
It's about discovery.
It's about education - just like this university.
More recently, NASA has received negative publicity and experienced a decline in public support - in…