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North Kingstown, Rhode Island was the home of U.S. Naval Air Station (NAS) Quonset Point. The NAS was the main shipping facility for the Lend-Lease Program and a major naval base for both ships and airplanes. It was also the site of the first “quonset hut”, a lightweight military building that was easy to manufacture and assemble. The Navy also established Camp Endicott at Davisville, North Kingstown, as the main training facility for Navy Construction Batallions (Seabees).
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Public programming for the 2024 Total Eclipse was a team effort! With help from Earth to Sky—an organization that fosters collaboration between NASA and the National Park Service—visitors at Hot Springs National Park and other NPS sites in the eclipse path got to experience awe and learning as they witnessed the April 8, 2024 Total Eclipse.
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On January 25, 1962, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) formally assigned the task of developing the Saturn V Launch Vehicle, a three-stage rocket designed for a lunar landing mission, to the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, with launch responsibility committed to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Hanford Downwinders: Trisha Thompson Pritikin
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Trisha Pritikin is a lawyer, writer, mother, downwinder, and most of all, an ardent activist. She served on the Hanford Health Effects Subcommittee (HHES), run by the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). She has demanded accountability from federal agencies addressing civilian downwinder issues, including the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), The National Academy of Science (NAS), and the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH).
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Tracing Our Path to Space
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Beginning in 1995, the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) partnered with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to document many historic resources related to the U.S. space program. This includes the Space Transportation System (known popularly as the Space Shuttle), NASA Mission Control, and more. Explore the history of the space program via HDP’s animations and archival HAER documentation.
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African American women played a critical role in the Space Race and rose to new heights as mathematicians, computer programmers, team project leads, and engineers at NASA. This article features properties in the National Register of Historic Places that are related to their stories.
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This article provides opportunities for students to learn about the women computers who work at NASA, both past and present.
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In 1958, amidst a growing space race with the Russians, President Eisenhower called for a civilian space agency. Under Eisenhower's leadership, NASA was born. Explore this story further in this article.
Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
Lewis and Clark Trail Updates 2022
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Catch up on projects and collaborations of 2022 including Railroads and Native America Gathering, LC Tribal Legacy website, and a NASA partnership.
Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve
What we are learning from Nataeł Na’
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Read the abstract and link to a paper on the findings from an archaeological site that may increase understanding of human migration from the Bering Land Bridge: White, J. T., A. Henry, S. Kuehn, M. G. Loso, and J. T. Rasic. 2022. Terminal Pleistocene human occupation of the upper Copper River basin, southern Alaska: Results of test excavations at Nataeł Na’. Quaternary International.
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On June 9, 2022, members of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) SpaceX Crew-2 mission visited National Park Service Headquarters in Washington D.C. for a celebration of science, astronomy, art and exploration. The following is the brief introductory speech given by Grand Canyon National Park ranger Rader Lane to SpaceX Crew-2, National Park Service leadership, and Department employees in the North Penthouse of the Department of the Interior building.
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Astronauts Visit National Park Service Headquarters
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On June 9, 2022, members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 mission visited National Park Service Headquarters in Washington D.C. for a celebration of science, astronomy, art and exploration. SpaceX Crew-2 returned to earth last November after a record-setting six months at the International Space Station. During their visit, the crew met with park leadership and employees to learn about the National Park Service’s efforts to protect and preserve our dark skies.
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The following two publications assess different methods for determining burn severity at a landscape scale. The case study, Assessing Wildfire Burn Severity and Its Relationship with Environmental Factors: A Case Study in Interior Alaska Boreal Forest, reviews various remote sensing methods for assessing burn severity at Shovel Creek and Nugget Creek fire in Fairbanks. The second article utilizes composite landsat imagery to assess burn severity in boreal forests of NA.
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NASA astronauts have quite literally an out-of-this-world view of national parks and take some pretty stellar pictures to share. Travel along with the space station on its journey west to east getting the extreme bird’s eye view of national parks across the country. And one more down-to-earth.
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Curiosity Kits inspire exploration and learning of history through place. These multi-piece resources include articles that explore historic places and provide educational activities for life-long learners. This kit focuses on the African American women who played a critical role in the Space Race. Some of these women rose to new heights as mathematicians, computer programmers, team project leads, and engineers at NASA. This series explores some of the historic places related to their stories.
Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
Mars & Lewis and Clark Connection
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In late 2015, Opportunity was preparing to explore the eastern end of the Endeavour Crater. As the rover crawled around an area named Marathon Valley, the NASA team decided to use a special naming theme for surface locations in this area of Mars – a tribute to the Corps of Discovery Expedition.
Aleutian Islands World War II National Historic Area
Howard Rummel
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Howard Rummel served in the Navy on NAS Attu from Sept 1944 – Jan 1946.
Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve
Geolinguistic Evidence of Dene Presence at High-water Levels of Glacial Lake Atna.
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Kari (2019) introduces a theory of Na-Dene prehistory, "the Proto-Dene Lex Loci" that derives from Lexware dictionary files and cumulative place name for seven adjacent Alaska Dene languages. To investigate Dene prehistory in the Copper River and circum–Glacial Lake Atna (GLA) region, we discuss a selection of 67 Dene place names from seven Dene languages in four Alaska river basins.
Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve
Nic'anilen Na': A Partnership in Conservation, Stewardship, and Education.
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Nic anilen Na Partnerships WISE
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NASA creates new technology to explore space, protect astronauts, and more. Many of these same technologies help us study and stay safe on our own planet, Earth. NASA spinoffs are products that started as NASA technology, or were worked on by NASA, that are now used for other purposes. Explore these pages and discover the connections NASA technology brings to your life.