1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:08,480 [Music] 2 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:09,300 >>Six o'clock, 3 00:00:09,300 --> 00:00:10,400 time to get started. 4 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:10,980 >>Lynne? 5 00:00:10,980 --> 00:00:11,880 >>Here. 6 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:12,680 >>LeeAnn? 7 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:13,560 >>Here. 8 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:15,800 >>We're going to do two legs on S106. 9 00:00:15,806 --> 00:00:18,866 The first one is pointing at the main part of S106. 10 00:00:18,866 --> 00:00:21,166 This is a star forming region. 11 00:00:21,166 --> 00:00:25,646 [Music] [Aircraft Engines] 12 00:00:29,380 --> 00:00:30,400 >> The EPOS. 13 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:31,716 When we get up to altitude, 14 00:00:31,716 --> 00:00:33,266 everywhere you go this EPOS goes with you. 15 00:00:33,266 --> 00:00:36,640 That's your emergency air, and for those with glasses, 16 00:00:36,646 --> 00:00:39,826 you know to put the glasses in before you put the mask on. 17 00:00:39,826 --> 00:00:43,166 [Aircraft taking off] 18 00:00:43,166 --> 00:00:47,026 [Music] 19 00:00:48,256 --> 00:00:51,816 >> My name is George Hademenos, and I am a physics teacher 20 00:00:51,826 --> 00:00:54,866 at Richardson High School in Richardson, Texas. 21 00:00:54,866 --> 00:00:56,256 >> My name is Judy Little. 22 00:00:56,256 --> 00:00:57,836 I am from Omaha, Nebraska, 23 00:00:57,846 --> 00:01:01,320 and I am a science teacher in a high school. 24 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:02,820 >> My name is Diane Watson. 25 00:01:02,826 --> 00:01:05,836 I'm a special education math and science teacher, 26 00:01:05,836 --> 00:01:09,356 and I teach at Richardson High School near Dallas, Texas. 27 00:01:09,356 --> 00:01:11,356 >> My name is LeeAnn Vaughan. 28 00:01:11,356 --> 00:01:14,316 I am a science teacher from Omaha, Nebraska. 29 00:01:14,316 --> 00:01:18,976 [Music] [Radio chatter] 30 00:01:22,196 --> 00:01:24,826 >> As a physics teacher, what I like to do is search 31 00:01:24,826 --> 00:01:28,806 for creative and innovative approaches to enlighten my kids 32 00:01:28,806 --> 00:01:31,946 on real-world applications of physics. 33 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,560 Although I'm a teacher, I'm also a student as well. 34 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:36,760 I love to learn. 35 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,540 I love to engage in these new learning experiences. 36 00:01:41,216 --> 00:01:43,756 >> They're going to pore over a ton of data. 37 00:01:43,756 --> 00:01:46,006 >> What kind of storage are you talking about? 38 00:01:46,006 --> 00:01:47,756 >> The observatory is expected 39 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:50,760 to collect three terabytes of data per flight. 40 00:01:50,766 --> 00:01:53,946 >> Science data is really the bread and butter of SOFIA. 41 00:01:53,946 --> 00:01:55,540 That's what we hang our hat on. 42 00:01:55,540 --> 00:01:56,880 >> Leg ten; right? 43 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:58,080 >> Uh-huh, yep. 44 00:01:58,676 --> 00:01:59,536 >> Leg nine. 45 00:01:59,540 --> 00:02:01,100 Yeah, we're starting at nine, and we'll do a -- 46 00:02:01,296 --> 00:02:05,076 >> All right, see. See the nine leg--to the nine leg's at six-fifty... 47 00:02:05,076 --> 00:02:07,296 I have always been interested in science. 48 00:02:07,306 --> 00:02:09,956 The beauty of having STEM opportunities is 49 00:02:09,956 --> 00:02:12,876 that in addition to expanding our information about astronomy, 50 00:02:12,876 --> 00:02:15,336 is also to learn about data collection 51 00:02:15,346 --> 00:02:17,516 and mathematical calculations. 52 00:02:17,516 --> 00:02:20,646 [Radio chatter] 53 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:24,140 >> This screen is giving us all the data. 54 00:02:24,146 --> 00:02:27,796 So this is still telling us the time into the flight. 55 00:02:27,796 --> 00:02:32,376 It's telling us longitudes, latitudes, timing, altitudes. 56 00:02:32,380 --> 00:02:34,860 This is telling us the angle of the telescope; 57 00:02:34,866 --> 00:02:38,536 it's telling us whether the telescope is still centered 58 00:02:38,536 --> 00:02:39,816 in its bay. 59 00:02:39,816 --> 00:02:41,236 [Music] [Aircraft flying] 60 00:02:41,246 --> 00:02:42,760 >> How do you hook kids? 61 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:44,400 You know, what's the hook? 62 00:02:44,406 --> 00:02:48,476 It's like, well, kids love to see things go kaboom. 63 00:02:48,476 --> 00:02:49,316 >> Yeah. 64 00:02:49,326 --> 00:02:51,126 >> Colliding galaxies. 65 00:02:51,460 --> 00:02:52,660 >> Galactic collisions, baby. 66 00:02:52,660 --> 00:02:54,780 >> My kids see that in a book, and they're like, "Hey, 67 00:02:54,780 --> 00:02:56,780 we're going to learn about this?" 68 00:02:56,786 --> 00:03:00,066 We've looked at galaxies colliding and then the stars 69 00:03:00,066 --> 00:03:02,056 that are forming in that area. 70 00:03:02,056 --> 00:03:04,616 We're looking at young or new stars 71 00:03:04,616 --> 00:03:08,706 and there's an accretion disk or an area of material that twirls 72 00:03:08,706 --> 00:03:12,096 around it, and then how does that affect or influence 73 00:03:12,096 --> 00:03:14,036 that star's formation. 74 00:03:14,046 --> 00:03:16,316 If I could talk to my high school students right now, 75 00:03:16,316 --> 00:03:19,036 I would just say that if you look around, you're going 76 00:03:19,036 --> 00:03:23,536 to see why hard work and science and math and all kinds 77 00:03:23,536 --> 00:03:26,916 of opportunities out there are worth the effort. 78 00:03:27,696 --> 00:03:29,456 >> I think that's a satellite. 79 00:03:29,906 --> 00:03:36,766 For me, the bigger impact really is taking what I'm seeing as far 80 00:03:36,766 --> 00:03:40,766 as science in action and just the process of science. 81 00:03:42,016 --> 00:03:44,936 Another thing that has been really impressive is watching 82 00:03:44,936 --> 00:03:47,706 the problem solving, watching teams 83 00:03:47,706 --> 00:03:48,986 of people working together, 84 00:03:48,986 --> 00:03:51,436 not just the scientists working together 85 00:03:51,436 --> 00:03:54,256 but also the entire team on board. 86 00:03:54,256 --> 00:03:56,666 I just think that's a really important lesson 87 00:03:56,666 --> 00:03:57,976 to bring back to our students. 88 00:03:57,976 --> 00:04:00,436 How do you go about solving a problem? 89 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:02,040 [Music] [Radio chatter] 90 00:04:02,046 --> 00:04:04,046 >> So you have three different visions. 91 00:04:04,046 --> 00:04:06,906 So they're still looking at these targets. 92 00:04:06,906 --> 00:04:09,380 Here...here...here... 93 00:04:09,386 --> 00:04:14,226 So even though we're nearly at the end of our journey, 94 00:04:14,226 --> 00:04:17,696 we are still infrared telescoping right 95 00:04:17,696 --> 00:04:21,626 up until we turn past Las Vegas and go home. 96 00:04:22,116 --> 00:04:23,756 How many people at five o'clock 97 00:04:23,756 --> 00:04:27,116 in the morning are still doing, with the same excitement 98 00:04:27,116 --> 00:04:31,356 and tenacity they were doing at eight o'clock last night?