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Jewel of the Solar System: Part 5 – My Spacecraft to Saturn — NASA JPL lessonScience · Engineering & Technology · Grades 4–5Lesson plan

After two decades in space, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has ended its remarkable journey of exploration. In this activity, split into four about 40 minute sessions, youth will: Connect with the Cassini spacecraft and the designers who built it — by thinking like engineers. Follow the engineering process of building a spacecraft through team discussion, design drawing, model construction, and peer presentation — which emulates steps taken by the Cassini team in designing a spacecraft to travel to

From NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL Education · Public domain (US Gov) · original source

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