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Space Hitchhikers: The ESPA Ring

Space Hitchhikers: The ESPA Ring

As part of the Your Place In Space initiative, the Department of Defense (DOD) invites you to explore their space-inspired K-12 STEM resources on its agency website. We hope you find helpful materials that equip and empower your students to discover, explore, and create their place in space! 

Using an amazing adaptor called an ESPA ring, engineers at an Air Force research lab in Albuquerque are helping to send up more satellites by adding them to existing, larger missions. This video explains how.