NASA+2B

**Facts**
 * NASA**

** **Book** "National Aeronautic Association." __World Book__. 2006th ed. 2006.
 * President Dwight D. Eisenhower made the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on July 29,1958
 * Apollo 11 was the first moon landing
 * Viking was the first mars landing
 * Pioneer program launched an unmanned deep space probe that was made for interplanetary exploration
 * Pioneer tried to get to the moon 4 times and didn’t succeed
 * Pioneer transferred from the Air Force to the Army
 * NASA is a United States Government agency that makes research flights
 * Kennedy Space Center in Florida and Lyndon Johnson Space Center in Houston are some places were NASA is.
 * After Apollo, NASA focused on creating a reusable ship to provide regular access to space
 * The modified 747 provided the muscle to lift and fly Endeavour home.
 * NASA is one of the biggest space centers in the world. There is also a space station in Germany.
 * Most people that go into space have flown a jet for NASA.
 * Sources

**Web** Wilson, Jim, ed. __NASA__. 12 Dec. 2008. NASA Institution. 12 Dec. 2008 http://www.nasa.gov/. __NASA__. 4 Dec. 2008. 10 Dec. 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nasa.

**PICTURES**



**Story** Once there were three people. Their names were Kristen, Matt and Alex. They had no idea what to do. Then they remembered going to Challenger Learning Center when they were in 7th grade. Where they had to perform many jobs, like navigation, isolation, life support, medical, probe, and other difficult tasks that they thought were fun. So they went to the NASA space center but first they had to know how to drive a jet. They had to learn how to drive a jet because almost everyone who goes to outer space has driven a jet for NASA. So they went back to school for a long time to learn how to drive a jet. After they went back to NASA and they said that they could only drive a jet for NASA at this time because there was no room for them and that they had to go back to school to be an astronaut, but they didn’t go to school but what would be the point if you couldn’t be an astronaut. Then after four years, NASA asked them if they wanted to go to go on a trip to Mars because they had done such a great job. Of course they said yes because that was their plan from the beginning. NASA said that they have to go back flying school. So they went to school again for about 2 years. After that they went to NASA and asked for the job. Then NASA said yes! They also had to have to do 6 months of preparing for the flight to Mars. They went in the entire line of simulators Over and over again in till it was perfected. They were ready for space. They also made a sick patch that is theirs for ever (No one could take it). Then on January 4th, 2069 they were prepared to leave Earth to go to Mars. They went through the simulator one more time while the ship was getting moved to the launch pad. Then at one a clock they were ready to get in the space ship. They all went up the big elevator, then got strapped in by a person who works for NASA and then told their teams on making something to make it to where there was more oxygen. So the special team was creating some thing to make so NASA they were ready for lift off. NASA control said 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 lift off and they switched the controls to mission control in Huston, Texas. They started towards outer space. They had made it out of Earth. Then all of a sudden the Master Alarm went on and they started to get scared! They were losing an engine. It didn’t affect there course at all, and it was fine to get the rest of the way said mission control. Then 2 days later when they were 4 days away the emergency light came back on this time they were losing oxygen. So mission control started to try and make some thing from the stuff they would have on bared. . Also it was even harder to make it because they only had some things that were on board which wasn’t much because they could only have a little bit of stuff because they had to have Mars rocks on board. Then one hour later mission control had finally fingered out what to do. So then they started to name off the parts they needed like a plastic bag and things like that. Then after they had all the supplies they started to tell Matt how they needed to make it. So they started to make it and then they finished it. They plugged it in and it started to work they started to be able to breath again. So they started to fly to Mars again. So it was day 10 and they were just about to get there. Then when they get there they had to leave most of the ship and get on to Mars surface. So they started to walk around they walked like 20 miles when they saw the ice. So they took some samples and went on and that’s when they found the perfect place to start getting rock samples. Then after they had taken rock samples they went back to the ship and filled it up with every thing. Then after they tried to get off of Mars so they took off. Then after that once they got off of Mars the Master Alarm came on they were too heavy so they had to drop things out of the air lock. They dropped most of their rocks they were really sad. Of course they did and then they had a safe flight home. Although it did take them a long time to get used to the gravity on earth. It was great after they had gotten used to the gravity. They ended up becoming really famous because of all the things they had to do. It was NASA’s biggest accident ever and they had still made it to Mars and back.