Student Reminders

·         The school bus will leave early Saturday morning with an expected arrival at VASC by 10 AM in time for the exciting ISS IMAX film. The bus will depart from VASC around 3 PM. Your YBTS teachers will have the precise times for you depending on your bus schedule.

·         Review all websites (URLs) mentioned in this notice, so you can benefit most from your tour of the official Visitor Center for the NASA Langley Research Center.

·         Bring your notebooks for review by Aileen Seshun, YBTS partner teachers, & students. See the notes regarding contents sent to your teachers May 6, 2002.

·         Bring your game ideas with materials & instructions for lunch time 'Game Time.'

·         Become acquainted with other students. You may meet again on a college campus some day.

Blast off on a thrilling adventure more than two hundred miles above Earth! IMAX will take you to the heart of the action as the daring astronaut construction crews put together the largest and most complex structure ever assembled in space. Inside, you will float alongside the first men and women to inhabit the new station while they set up house, add new modules and perform scientific experiments, all while experiencing the thrill of life in zero-gravity.
URL:  http://www.vasc.org/spacestation.html

The ATS 6

You will see the first of the second-generation ATS spacecraft, ATS-6, which was also the last ATS project. Learn about this satellite, a little history of satellites, & what satellite is named a tiny mammal like we studied at the beginning of the year. URLs:

·   ATS 6 Info http://roland.lerc.nasa.gov/~dglover/sat/ats6.html

·  ATS 6 Statistics http://leonardo.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/QuickLooks/ats6QL.html

·   History of NASA Satellites http://roland.lerc.nasa.gov/~dglover/sat/satcom2.html#ATS6

At this permanent exhib:  You will be able to 'Touch a Tornado,' experience 'Meteorology Magic,' & learn about hurricanes in 'Eye of the Storm.' URL: http://www.vasc.org/wildweather.html

 

This stop on our Agenda is a hands-on laboratory, computer experience where students research weather conditions using the Center's weather station, work with a global positioning system, and interpret satellite images captured with remote sensing.

These are the three workstations which you will be accessing in teams of 3:

·         Weather Station - Researchers will go outside (actually the roof of the museum) where they will gather current local weather data. Later, they will use information gained from a series of remote weather tracking stations to check weather across the US.

·         GPS - Students will read & interpret aviation charts/maps used by pilots to determine latitude, longitude of various US airports.

·         Remote Sensing - Analysts will explore detailed aerial & satellite photographs of maps from the Cleveland area.

        URL: http://www.vasc.org/aerozone.html