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Ann Morgan

Ann Morgan

Ann Morgan is a retired public school teacher who writes for national educational and cultural outlets, and whose work for the Library of Congress won the 2018 PBS national award for Best Open Access Resource. She lives in Maryland, but spends much of her time in Houston, where she and her space-nerd family are part of the adventure at NASA Johnson Space Center. She is the author of The International Space Station and other non-fiction books that address developing literacy and  English Language Learners.

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MDRS Hab, rover and astronaut | Kavya Manyapu
The Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, operated by The Mars Society and staffed by dedicated astronaut-volunteers, is dedicated to examining how humans may explore Mars. 
Raising a water sample from The Red Ocean | Courtesy of Pete Morgan-Dimmick
The Mars Desert Research Station in Utah is dedicated to examining how humans may explore Mars. 
Panorama of the moon taken during mission Apollo 17. | Wikimedia Commons/NASA - Lunar and Planetary Institute
In 1970, President Richard Nixon gave Apollo 11 lunar samples to 135 friendly countries and to every U.S. state and territory. 49 years later, many of those samples are unaccounted for.
Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, wearing an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), participates in lunar surface simulation training on April 18, 1969, in Building 9, Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center). In the months immediately before the Apollo 11 mission, the crew and the ground support teams had an intense schedule of training and simulation. Here, Armstrong practices scooping up a lunar sample. | Flickr/NASA/Creative Commons
In 1970, President Richard Nixon gave Apollo 11 lunar samples to 135 friendly countries and U.S. states. Now, many of those samples are unaccounted for.
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