Australian High School Teachers to Participate in NASA Spaceward Bound Program

The first Australian high school teachers to participate in the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) Spaceward Bound (SB) program will be travelling to the Desert Studies Centre, a space-related research station of the California State University located near Zzyzx in the Mojave Desert, California, on 4-11 April. The Centre provides a Mars-like environment for research aimed at exploring and studying the Red Planet and associated planetary science and the program will be led by Dr Chris McKay, a planetary scientist within the Space Science Division of the NASA Ames Research Centre.

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