To Space and Back

Suitable for: College, General Audiences, Grades 4-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Available languages: Catalan, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese (Brazil), Putonghua, Spanish (Spain)

Covered subject areas: Space Science & Astronomy

Runtime: 25 minutes

Release date: 2012

Description

Space exploration — our greatest adventure — is having a big impact on our lives. It’s helping us to discover a universe of unimaginable scale and beauty, and it’s reaching down into our world and influencing the way we live.

To Space And Back takes audiences on an incredible journey from the far reaches of our known universe to our own planet. It is an extraordinary story of human ingenuity and incredible engineering, describing how the technology that transports us through space is paving the way for the devices and apps we use every day.

What’s happening above is coming back down to Earth! Discover how we’ve been changed by space exploration, and what we owe to curiosity and the spirit of discovery.

Produced by Sky-Skan in association with The Franklin Institute.

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