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| Space Science Projects
**Tracer Bullet 13-6**
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Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity -This artist concept shows NASA's  mobile robot for investigating Mars' past or present ability to   sustain microbial life. From NASA Website.First Curiosity Drilling Sample in the Scoop.    This image from NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars shows the first sample   of   powdered rock extracted by the rover's drill.Photo: Nasa Image Gallery.
**SCOPE**
 Space science, or the space sciences, are fields of science                that are concerned with the study or utilization of outer space.                There are several major fields of space science including astronomy,                exobiology, space transport, and space exploration and colonization.                In addition, space sciences impact or are related to many other                fields, from the biology of organisms in space environments to                the geology of other bodies and planets (astrogeology), as well                as nuclear physics in interstellar space and inside stars. This                bibliography provides information sources which provide guidance                to students, parents and teachers throughout the process of planning,                developing, implementing and competing in science fair activities                related to space science. Sources range in suitability from elementary                to secondary school levels. 

 This guide updates *LC Science Tracer Bullet 06-3, Space                Science Projects*. Sources in other areas of science and                on science fairs themselves are listed in *Science Fair                Projects* (TB 09-3), *Environmental Science Projects* (TB                09-2), and *Science Projects in Biology, Natural History and Agriculture (TB 10-2)*.                Not intended to be a comprehensive bibliography, this guide                is designed--as the name tracer bullet implies--to put the                reader “on target.” For updates and other related resources, consult the Science Reference Services web page at: http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech. 

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**INTRODUCTION                  TO THE TOPIC**
 Pallant, Amy, Sarah Pryputniewicz, and Hee-Sun Lee.  Exploring the unknown: fostering critical thinking in Earth and space science. *Science teacher,* v. 79, Mar. 2012: 60-65.                 Q181.S38 and Pamphlet box <SciRR>

*Space sciences.* 2nd end. Detroit, Gale, Cengage Learning, c2012.  4 v.                 QB500.S63 2012 <SciRR>                 Includes bibliographical references.                 Contents: v. 1. Space business. -- v. 2. Planetary science              and astronomy. -- v. 3. Humans in space. -- v. 4. Our future in space.

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**SUBJECT                  HEADINGS**
Subject headings used by the Library of Congress, under which              books on space science projects can be located in most card, and              online catalogs include the following:

**Highly Relevant**

ASTRONAUTICS                ASTRONAUTICS--EXPERIMENTS                   See also subdivision EXPERIMENTS under subject                headings of particular interest, such as AIR--EXPERIMENTS, FLIGHT--EXPERIMENTS, PHYSICS--EXPERIMENTS                ASTRONOMY                ASTRONOMY--EXPERIMENTS                SPACE SCIENCES                SPACE SCIENCES--EXPERIMENTS                SPACE STATIONS              
**Relevant**
              ASTEROIDS              ASTRONOMY--OBSERVERS' MANUALS              ASTRONOMY--STUDY AND TEACHING              ASTRONOMY PROJECTS              CONSTELLATIONS              COSMOLOGY              EXOBIOLOGY              LIFE--ORIGIN              MANNED SPACE FLIGHT              MARS (PLANET)--EXPLORATION              OUTER SPACE              OUTER SPACE--EXPLORATION              OUTER SPACE--STUDY AND TEACHING              PLANETS              ROCKETRY              ROCKETS (AERONAUTICS)              SCIENCE--EXPERIMENTS              SCIENCE PROJECTS              SPACE ASTRONOMY              SPACE BIOLOGY              SPACE FLIGHT              SPACE FLIGHT--EXPERIMENTS              SPACE FLIGHT TO MARS              SPACE FLIGHT TO THE MOON              SPACE MEDICINE              SPACE SHUTTLES               SPACE VEHICLES              TELESCOPES              WEIGHTLESSNESS 
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**BASIC                  TEXTS**
 Bortz, Fred. *Seven wonders of space technology.* Minneapolis, Twenty-First Century Books, c2011.  80 p.                 TL793.B665 2011                 Bibliography: p. 76-77. 

 Brownell, Richard. *Space exploration.* Detroit, Lucent Books, c2013.  96 p.                 QB500.262.B77 2013                 Bibliography: p. 88-89.

 Damon, Thomas. *Introduction to space: the science of spaceflight.* 4th              ed. Malabar, FL, Krieger, 2011.300 p.                 TL791.D36 2011<SciRR>                 Includes bibliographical references.

 Gardner, Robert, and Madeline P. Goodstein. *Ace your space science project: great science fair ideas.*Berkeley Heights, NJ, Enslow Publishers, c2010.  127 p. |