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Learn about the history of NASA and the topics it studies. Would you want to work for NASA someday?
Although NASA’s headquarters is in Washington D.C., it has bases across the country. Many spacecraft are launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at a place called the Kennedy Space Center. NASA’s command control center is in Houston, Texas. This base is called the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. NASA has 20 centers in total and about 18,000 employees.
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Making Connections
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NASA sends astronauts to the ISS Would you like to go to the ISS? Why or why not?
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Have you read any other books about NASA? What were some things that you learned?
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NASA studies space. What are some things that you know about space?