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this is mission control houston coming

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up at the end of the month from january

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29th through february 1st

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nasa and its partners are going to be

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running another session of what's called

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the earth cam mission this is a chance

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for students around the world to program

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a camera and a laptop onboard the

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international space station to point it

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down at the earth and to take pictures

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of different things around the planet

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these students are basically running

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their own experiment onboard the

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international space station we are

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fortunate enough now to be joined by one

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of the teachers who has worked with that

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experiment we're joined by diane bowen

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from brunswick maine diane how are you

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going well now let's see you first of

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all let me ask you this you were an

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astrobiology teacher but that was to

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eighth graders correct

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i don't remember taking astrobiology

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when i was in junior high so talk a

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started that because i know that you you

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pitched that program to

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the powers that be there in brunswick

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maine and sort of started a pilot

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program correct

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yes actually it was uh partially nasa

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the pilot program and i was lucky enough

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to be one of the 10 in the state of

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so how did you get involved with

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earthkam this experiment goes back to i

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think the mid-90s 1995 and it was

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started by sally ride

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obviously the first american female in

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space and uh somebody that had a long

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history with nasa so how did you find

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out about it and how did you get

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well i was actually asked to start the

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program by um

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bob gabries

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goddard space flight center

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and he said i'd love for you to try it

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um started it in 1996

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and it's a fantastic program

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so i'm assuming you did both the space

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shuttle version of this and also the

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space station version correct

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so you taught for what 30 years you just

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retired here recently correct

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so are you missing teaching yet

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well i'm kind of keeping my hand in it

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mooncam as well

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and we're working right now on a grant

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sure so talk a bit about you know

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whenever you're sitting there with your

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students and you're teaching them how to

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how did you guys pick targets and you

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know how did you what was the process

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for that with your with your students

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oh gosh we sent out forms to teachers

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would assume to to sort of teach your

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kids about you know real world impacts

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of of earth and how both natural and

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man-made phenomena you know affect our

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planet especially seeing it from 250

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miles up in space right

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you know it's not it's it's more than

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just a textbook it's something you can

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something on board you know this huge

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orbiting laboratory and actually doing

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real science uh that's that's my motto

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is make it real

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why do i need this stuff

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you know control or get my students to

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control an experiment on board the space

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station that's got to be sort of a you

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know a hard process to go through it's

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them because it's really fairly easy

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conference and i've run in i'm taking my

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into people from all over the world that

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powerful thing to see

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it makes it more powerful whenever the

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students are controlling this experiment

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and for the kids to see what a fragile

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well there's two information sessions

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for teachers uh that can participate the

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first one is going to be on january 2nd

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at 9 30 a.m central time the second one

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at 6 p.m central time and all teachers

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have to do is uh send an email to that

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earthcam.ucsd.edu so again it's webinar

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and again the actual earth cam session

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through february 1st so diane uh it's

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been an honor to talk to you

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especially after teaching for 30 years

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which is just an amazing

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accomplishment but congratulations to

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you and again we want to thank you for

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joining us today here on nasa television

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well i thank nasa for such a wonderful

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program to inspire kids