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six this year the nation's space program
will generate several trillion bits of
raw science and engineering data or put
another way that's roughly equal to the
amount of information stored in the
Library of Congress getting it all
analyzed and translated into useful
knowledge offers an unprecedented
opportunity one that will grow more
important in the years ahead as NASA
flies more shuttles and places free
flying observatories and the Space
Station freedom in Earth orbit the
amount of information data they will
come down from the spacecraft is
unbelievable it's going to increase by
about a factor of a thousand over the
next half a decade now NASA officials
have developed a pilot program aimed at
sharing that information with academic
researchers it's called the NASA
University joint venture or simply the
Jove initiative already the space agency
works with several hundred of the
nation's several thousand colleges and
universities Jove will greatly broaden
that partnership in short raw scientific
and engineering data generated from
future space flights will be made
available to a university in exchange
for analysis by faculty members and
students the universities will also be
encouraged to start outreach programs to
bring the excitement of the space
program into secondary in elementary
schools in their area that may go a long
way toward addressing a growing national
concern will there be enough scientists
and engineers in the years ahead to meet
the expanding need the future of the
United States particularly our economy
depends on our technology and it's these
kids the ones now who are making these
choices of do I go into science and
engineering it's these kids are going to
be the ones that are that are going to
generate the new technology of the
future on which will depend as a nation
and many are not choosing it the job
pilot program will get underway this
summer as participating professors
attend an orientation session at NASA's
Marshall Space Flight Center before
returning to their respective campuses
the program is expected to become
operational nationwide in a couple of
years in Huntsville this is mike
arrington reporting
see were maneuvering to the nebula now
parking on the moon is like hitting a
moving target as you would expect
10 liftoff
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