Index - T

Teacher Resource Centers (TRCs), 147

Telescopes
     electromagnetic spectrum, 94
     ground-based, 95-96
     history, 2
     Hubble Space Telescope, 68, 96f, 97-98, 97t, 143
     infrared, 100-102
     as time machines, 94-95

Television
     NASA's use of, 145, 146
     Star Trek, 11

Termination shock, 135

Thermal protection
     reentry, 60-61
     space shuttle design, 54-55

Time
     Martian day, 113
     telescopes as time machines, 94-95

TIROS 1, 12

Tito, Dennis, 80-81

Tombaugh, Clyde, 132

Tools for extravehicular activity, 90f

Tourism, space. See Space tourism Tourism of NASA facilities, 148

Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, 12

Transoceanic flight, 3

TRCs (Teacher Resource Centers), 147

Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, 10

Trip to the Moon (Méliès), 3

Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin, 4

2001: A Space Odyssey (movie), 11-12