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Make: is going to space! Have you ever wanted to go up into space? Well, you don’t have to win a golden ticket, be a millionaire, or an astronaut… you can send your own payload into space!
The video podcast details the creation of a small satellite project utilizing HAM raido, GPS, digital cameras, and weather balloons. View the video here:
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/03/diy_space_make_video_podc.html
NASA and the U.S. Department of Education are working together through the Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative to host a free regional workshop. The event will take place at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on May 31-June 1, 2007.
The agenda for the event includes peer-discussion sessions and special sessions that will give teachers ideas for bringing the excitement of NASA projects into their classroom. Tours of JSC are also planned to give educators a first-hand look at some of the agency’s work. Visits to Mission Control, the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility and other facilities are planned.
One of NASA’s key sessions will give teachers ideas on using the STS-118 shuttle mission to engage their students. This flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour, scheduled for summer 2007, will be an important step in the ongoing assembly of the International Space Station. STS-118 will also be the first flight of a NASA Educator Astronaut, mission specialist Barbara Morgan. During the session, participants will learn about engineering design challenge activities that have been developed in conjunction with STS-118.
Registration for the workshop begins on April 8, 2007. For more information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/teacherinitiative
