this
is still an exciting project we have
them all stacked over there
to do that the round table
the
theme was what impact has space
technology had on art and we did ask
also you know well what impact has art
had on space technology and the
conversation the crisscross conversation
made it very apparent that it is a
crisscross situation that they both do
feed from each other and and
derive a lot of new thoughts visions on
both ways
lift here
and this research then led to the
development of the shape of the space
shuttle
but this is very real for a photo reel
and you can tell that this artist knew
technically what was going on with the
painting but it's it's wonderful
painting isn't it
she took many different
things that she has seen inside the
vehicle assembly building and put it
together
in this wonderful
non-real form but capturing the essence
of what that interior space is like
again we have another this artist is
stan stokes he did the lifting body
you can see how intimately familiar he
is with the mechanics of what's going on
this is x-29
the wings are swept forward
instead of back
this is the sky it looks like if you
look closely though that's actually the
earth
in back of the astronaut here's you see
the man's face and you see
then what he's looking at
this is the big
uh
this is titled sunrise suit up
they show the artist suiting up
yeah
and uh
uh one thing
to remember is that the kennedy space
center is in the center of the merritt
island
and you think you know isn't that i mean
it's a beautiful piece of technology
one thing you have to remember that
these are not like fords that come off a
production line either when we just kind
of move down a little bit
i know i think that the whole aspect of
science and technology and and art is
a fascinating subject and many people
have talked about it so that was brought
up
nicely
okay
now let's look at the vocabulary
um
please monitor
we have you on screen prepared
position over
go ahead officer sit
down okay good job
presents
mix
go
okay now
well i'm a classroom teacher and i've
been working in this gallery on the
other side of the exhibit the first side
of course is for the public and here we
have thousands of visitors coming
through but what you don't see right at
first is that this gallery is really
designed for a classroom teacher
we have in place lesson plans pre and
post activities for the teacher to work
with before they come to our gallery
typically they will bring 30 students
those 30 students will have particular
assignments we'll send some to our over
orbiting vehicle
and some to mission control these
students have been working on vocabulary
development and also communication
skills but each student will then
receive instructions along with the
teacher for other ways to interact in
the gallery we've had kind of a unique
experience because every student comes
away with a different set of goals and
different set of objectives that they've
received from this so we've used this
not only as a teaching tool for the
teacher but also for the students this
is chris shell of the aerospace research
application center here in indianapolis
and chris could you please tell us about
some of your involvement with this
exhibit okay
um i've been involved with assisting
rick crossland in obtaining samples of
spin-off technologies that have been
developed over the past few years for
use here in the exhibit
i've also
assisted some of the museum staff with
obtaining technical contacts when they
had questions about different types of
things
and i also have
volunteered over 20 hours of time here
in the exhibit
well thank you that's considerable thank
you very much this is mr david hoppe
senior programs officer
of the indiana humanities council david
could you tell us please about the
activities of the council and how nasa
came to be involved in the humanities
conference please well generally
speaking the council is involved in
producing cultural programs or funding
cultural programs for the people of the
state of indiana
in the case of our annual conference
this is an occasion for us to bring
together humanists
artists scientists and business and
civic leaders to discuss issues and
topics that are important to the
citizens of indiana
a number of the issues were one theme
for example was a cultural literacy
what would constitute an educated person
let's say in the year 2050 we were also
discussing the future of beauty
we were discussing technologies and
human evolution
uh also the citizen and the future state
the changing roles of family
relationships
these are some of the broad topics that
we brought panels together to explore in
front of a public audience
also orson scott card the hugo and
nebula award-winning science fiction
novelist was here to
address the conference as our keynote
speaker we are with dr glenn bingle
director of medical education programs
at community hospitals in indianapolis
that was one of the exciting things that
many of the physicians have
commented that they did learn
uh about a lot of the things that nasa
has developed that they are actually
using today in their everyday clinical
practice of taking care of patients i
don't think they had appreciated the
origin of this scientific
technology until they were here that
night and actually could see
the moon landing and see the analogies
and all the various things that have
come back and have helped them in their
everyday practice
this has been a delightful opportunity
for us
our role for nasa as a contractor is to
look at
how do we take nasa's technology federal
government technology and apply it to
industrial problems in particular
applied against non-aerospace problems
most of our activity therefore is
dealing with with business people
we've had on and off discussions saying
that business people have children
and that one way that one might impact
business people to think more not only
about nasa technology but technology in
general would be through their children
we were delighted that lewis chose to
replicate the the most current
exhibit that has been produced for the
technology transfer area or the
teculization area nasa
we recognize that it maybe still reaches
a little
more senior level audience than
the audience that it was targeted here
for but that at least it was the best
part our role in was to say how could we
take some of those those technologies
that are demonstrated there a dust
buster or a thermal covering and and
put it in a mode that a child could
understand and make something out of it
and so through a teacher in residence
here rick rosslin who has worked for us
as a consultant starting last summer and
hopefully will be with us this
continuing spring
he put together
an idea of how we could use some of
these technologies in an experimental
way so you take the blanket you wrap
yourself up and you see if you get
warmer or
things like that so our role and i think
you've spoken to trishell
previously was to go out talk to the
company say would you provide materials
sunglasses dustbusters whatever so that
we can use it in this display and then
to sort of
work behind the scenes in our contacts
with with rick as he looked for finding
bits and pieces of gear um one of the
pieces of hardware in the scientific
area was was something of ours
so in one part level was then producing
materials that could be used and
interacting in a way that might be
helpful to make them
the other part that that was a delight
for for us and our staff was the ability
to provide quote experts and so
throughout the two-month period uh every
friday our staff is over manning
a separate uh two-hour slot and then
they volunteer and have work weekends
and some have have worked the overnight
missions so they also then have an
opportunity to function in that role so
that's been sort of the play and then
we've gotten to do special things as
a career night program where we helped
in terms of working through that and
then most recently uh the proclamation
of
the
what december 6th saint nicholas day as
everyone knows as technology transfer
day here
yes and i understand that uh during
technology transfer day there were
researchers and engineers from the nasa
lewis research center and you had
organized a reception for them by some
of the local
community of research engineers in the
corporations of indianapolis could you
tell us more about that please
as far as we know
this may be the first time that a a
program of this nature actually happened
it's it's uh quite common for nasa to
have an exchange where its people go
to visit a company or or vice versa but
uh
probably there's to say it's the first
maybe stretching it but we'll say it was
the first time ever uh where what we did
was look at bringing a whole group of
people into town and then finding hosts
for them and and what we looked for was
sort of an informal roll up your sleeves
kind of of atmosphere
an expert
such as walter merrell who went out to
allison gas turbine
it turns out walter had been
interacted with the folks out there but
they were delighted again to have that
opportunity sit down with a dozen or so
engineers have a sandwich and a brief
formal presentation this is where we are
this is where we're going this is what
nasa's problems are
but then to move into what's your
problems where can i help you and that's
what we would call the purest form of
technology transfer what what our
feedback was from the companies who had
them they were delighted and are already
asking when are we going to do it again
could it happen again how often could it
happen
there were companies who wanted to
participate but because of other
conflicts did not uh you probably had a
little better opportunity interacting
with the nasa folks on the way back but
my brief ones at least indicated that
they found that interesting in a little
different sense they usually go to
professional meetings and meet their
colleagues or they go an assignment to a
company
but here was a case of it was just sort
of wide open throw it out and see and so
we think it was a very successful
prototype and we're going to present it
back to to our funding source in code c
and suggest that something like this be
considered in the future i think it was
it was very successful
you