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NASA / JPL-Caltech
The call is going out for high-school students, and even elementary-school kids and college undergraduates, to take part in missions to Saturn and Mars.
If you have your heart set on Saturn, you can enter the "Cassini Scientist</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)</generator><item><title>Hey, kids! Join a space mission</title><link>http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/07/866971.aspx#869636</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:26:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:869636</guid><dc:creator>S.B. Stein E.B. NJ</dc:creator><description>With these programs, I wish I was back in high school just to do them. &amp;nbsp;That or my children; I would encourage them to do one of them so that I could be a part of it if at all possible. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is something that would get kids back interested in science. &amp;nbsp;It is the &amp;quot;what's out there&amp;quot; questions that could be great and inspiring. &amp;nbsp;</description></item><item><title>Hey, kids! Join a space mission</title><link>http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/07/866971.aspx#869935</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:49:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:869935</guid><dc:creator>Thomas Ashby, Calgary</dc:creator><description>Great idea for mainstream education...I just wonder how all those religious based schools and the private ones will react. Can you picture a creationist based 500 word essay on interpreting data from Cassini?</description></item><item><title>Hey, kids! Join a space mission</title><link>http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/07/866971.aspx#870786</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:45:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:870786</guid><dc:creator>JC, Fairbanks, AK</dc:creator><description>A program called MARSFEST is the education/Public outreach program associated with the Mars Phoenix mission. Several science teachers visited us at UAF's Geophysical Institute for an intensive week long 'camp' on Phoenix, Mars, and Arctic geoscience in summer of 2006. They and their students should be getting ready for the landing!</description></item></channel></rss>