9:30am – 10:00am
Education Alley Opens
Join us as we journey on the path of future space exploration. Teachers will be inspired with new tools to excite their students, Education Alley, an interactive exhibit designed to demonstrate all the possibilities of exploration to planets beyond earth. Please make sure to visit all 16 of our exhibitors.
NASA Vision for Space Exploration Experience Trailer
The trailer begins with a cosmic waiting area where visitors will learn what they will need to travel to the moon and Mars. After the "training session,” video screens display virtual models of the moon and Mars, allowing visitors to learn about their surfaces, the history of NASA's research on each, and future plans for exploration. The second section of the trailer, featuring a hexagonal theater, introduces visitors to NASA's plan to return to the moon to create a working environment that will help ensure safer, more effective future exploration further into the solar system. Highlighted are NASA-inspired technologies that have led to the improvement of the quality of life on Earth.
9:45am
Student reporters to assemble at water stand
10:00 – 10:45am
What’s Up in Space?
Next Generation Explorer’s Student Press Conference
Select students will have the opportunity to become reporters for a mock press conference with actual US Astronauts, Rocket Scientists and Aerospace Engineers. This press conference will feature Astronauts Clayton Anderson, Brian Duffy, Bruce McCandless and NASA Engineer Heather Paul.
10:45am – 2:00am
Education Alley Exhibits Re-opens
NASA Trailer Re-opens
Guided Tours of the Main Exhibit Hall- Meet at the Water Station
11:30am
Clayton Anderson
12:15pm
Lockheed Martin Presents: Nitro Man!
Dennis Vaughn: Nitro Man
Nitro Man unlocks the secrets of liquid nitrogen. Add new words to your vocabulary like cryogenics and Leidenfrost effect. Learn the difference between gas and liquid states. Be prepared to say "Wow!" when you see what happens to ordinary objects when they are dipped in liquid nitrogen during this scientific demonstration.
1:00pm
Space Weather
Misty Crown Space Weather Forecaster
We will venture into the heart of our nearest star, and see how dynamic and unpredictable our Sun can be. We will also answer question such as ... What is space weather? How does space weather affect our everyday lives? Why should we watch the Sun? What kind of tools do space weather forecasters use?
2:00pm
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008
9:30am – 10:00am
Education Alley Opens
Join us as we journey on the path of future space exploration. Teachers will be inspired with new tools to excite their students, Education Alley, an interactive exhibit designed to demonstrate all the possibilities of exploration to planets beyond earth. Please make sure to visit all 16 of our exhibitors.
NASA Vision for Space Exploration Experience Trailer
The trailer begins with a cosmic waiting area where visitors will learn what they will need to travel to the moon and Mars. After the "training session,” video screens display virtual models of the moon and Mars, allowing visitors to learn about their surfaces, the history of NASA's research on each, and future plans for exploration. The second section of the trailer, featuring a hexagonal theater, introduces visitors to NASA's plan to return to the moon to create a working environment that will help ensure safer, more effective future exploration further into the solar system. Highlighted are NASA-inspired technologies that have led to the improvement of the quality of life on Earth.
9:45am
Student reporters to assemble at water stand
10:00 – 10:45am
What’s Up in Space?
Next Generation Explorer’s Student Press Conference
Select students will have the opportunity to become reporters for a mock press conference with actual US Astronauts, Rocket Scientists and Aerospace Engineers. This press conference will feature Astronauts Clayton Anderson, Brian Duffy, Bruce McCandless and NASA Engineer Heather Paul.
10:45am – 2:00am
Education Alley Exhibits Re-opens
NASA Trailer Re-opens
Guided Tours of the Main Exhibit Hall- Meet at the Water Station
11:30am
Desert Rats and Future Exploration
Heather Paul, NASA JSC
12:15pm
Lockheed Martin Presents: Nitro Man!
Dennis Vaughn: Nitro Man
Nitro Man unlocks the secrets of liquid nitrogen. Add new words to your vocabulary like cryogenics and Leidenfrost effect. Learn the difference between gas and liquid states. Be prepared to say "Wow!" when you see what happens to ordinary objects when they are dipped in liquid nitrogen during this scientific demonstration.
1:00pm
NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration: motivating our next generation of space explorers!
Lisa Neasbitt, ESMD education
NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration: motivating our next generation of space explorers! Come Train Like an Astronaut! During this session determine what ‘exploration’ truly is, participate in physical activities that real astronauts use to train for spaceflight, and be entertained by the concepts of man returning to the moon, establishing a lunar base, and expanding space exploration onto Mars!
2:00pm
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