Join educators and space enthusiasts around the world to celebrate World Space Week, Oct. 4-10, 2009. This international event commemorates the beginning of the Space Age with the launch of Sputnik 1 on Oct. 4, 1957.World Space Week is the largest public space event in the world, with celebrations in more than 50 nations. To learn more about World Space Week, search for events in your area and find educational materials related to the event, visit http://www.worldspaceweek.org/index.html
Why not participate in two exciting activities occuring this week:
The Great Worldwide Star Count - This international event encourages everyone to go outside, look skywards after dark, count the stars they see in certain constellations and report what they see online. Check it out - http://www.windows.ucar.edu/citizen_science/starcount/
Send Messages into Space - To celebrate the United Nations declared World Space Week, you can send your own special message into deep space. It will be transmitted from British Telecom's satellite earth station at Goonhilly in the UK and it will travel through space forever. Your message will pass the moon just 1.3 seconds after being transmitted, it will pass the Sun eight minutes later and it will pass Pluto and leave our solar system after just 15 hours. That's because your message will be traveling at the speed of light - 671,000,000 miles per hour! How Cool Is That??? http://www.sentforever.com/free_message.cfm?pid=43
And...be sure to visit http://www.windows.ucar.edu/ An incredible interactive site where you can learn firsthand about space - the planets, the solar system, the universe, missions, climate and a whole lot more.... You Gotta Check This Out!!!
Let us know how YOU will celebrate World Space Week - it's a out of this world event!!!
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