Commercial Crew Program: Dawn of a New Space Age

Issued by Texas State University Continuing Education

earn about NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP), its partners, and related educational activities. When the STS-135 mission and Space Shuttle program drew to a close with Atlantis’ landing in 2011, NASA began an investment in American aerospace companies that would facilitate the development of reliable, cost-effective crew vehicles to the International Space Station (ISS). Estimated Time to Complete 7 hours.

Type Learning
Level Foundational
Time Hours
Cost Free

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Skills

Earning Criteria

(1) Learn about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) (Links to an external site.) and its unique instructional resources. (2) Familiarize yourself with content knowledge geared around forces and motion as well as knowledge regarding the procedures by which astronauts are selected and trained. (3) Explore hands-on instructional activities for any grade level that relate NASA’s CCP program, force and motion, and the engineering design process (EDP).

Standards

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS): K-PS2-2 Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions; LS1 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes. Common Core Math Standards: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD.C.6; CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.MD.A.2; CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.MD.A.3.