Space Shuttle experience brought to classrooms
News story originally written on January 9, 1997
Scheduled for launch on January 12, the Space Shuttle Atlantis will be
carrying one uncommon payload...KidSat. KidSat is an education program
maintained by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the University of
California at San Diego, and the John Hopkins University. A still camera
aboard the shuttle is used by middle school and high school students to
learn more about space, the duties of astronauts, and the Mission to
Planet Earth.
A group of high school students and undergraduates at the University of
California will operate KidSat's "Mission Control" which is modeled after
NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. These students will receive
telemetry from the shuttle and will send instructions to the camera to
photograph particular regions of the Earth.
This program allows students nationwide to learn more about our
planet
and NASA's shuttle operations. Interested school districts may
view the
information and images from KidSat via the following Internet
address:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/kidsat
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