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hello i'm lynn bonderant chief of the

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office of educational programs at the

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nasa lewis research center in cleveland

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today's edition of nasa report to

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education will look at two educational

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programs going on within nasa

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the first is nasa's educational workshop

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for elementary school teachers which is

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sometimes called newest

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we will also look at lewis research

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center's t-34 aircraft and see how it is

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used to promote aerospace education in

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several cleveland area schools

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but first let's go back to july 1990 to

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see how a group of educators came

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together at lewis to learn how to

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incorporate aerospace educational

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materials into their classroom

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in the following few minutes you will

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learn about an exciting educational

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program

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hosted at the nasa lewis research center

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in cleveland ohio

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it's called new west

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nasa's educational workshops for

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elementary school teachers the united

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states is training scientists and

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engineers

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seven out of every ten and the colleges

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and universities were from a foreign

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the remaining 3 out of 10 were from the

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united states

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it told me that our educational system

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cannot be poor

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we're making a mistake someplace and we

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need to turn kids on

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and it has to be early in their school

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life by the third or fourth grade where

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we've lost them you uniquely

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the ability to go and

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motivate excite touch so many children

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at the age when they are

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in their formative stages in particular

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in things like getting into interested

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in science and math and technology where

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this country as you know as well as i

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has gone downhill i'll say in the number

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of last years and people being kids

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being interested in that and it's at the

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age of kids which you're associating

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with where they really i believe make up

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they may not make up their minds but if

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they don't

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get some type of interest in their heart

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for this they're never going to pick it

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up later it's unlikely that you're going

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to pick it up later

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and so it's critical for

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in a very parochial sense

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for the future of the space program for

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you to go out and do what

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what we'd like you to do as a result of

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this program to turn our students on

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to help them dream of reaching for the

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to motivate them to go the extra

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distance

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these are some of the challenges facing

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teachers in america's schools today

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with recent surveys and studies showing

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that american students are falling

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behind the rest of the industrialized

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in the areas of mathematics and the hard

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sciences

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nasa has taken an increased interest in

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trying to reach these children

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through various workshops

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seminars

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and on-site help sessions

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nasa

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in conjunction with the national science

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teachers association and the national

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council of teachers of mathematics

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is attempting to get the educators

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excited about space

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and to get space theme related

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of these teachers

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nasa supports two programs which bring

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the teachers to its centers for two

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weeks of intensive hands-on learning and

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these two programs new mass

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nasa educational workshops for math and

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science teachers and new west nasa

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educational workshops for elementary

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school teachers

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involve about 200 select educators

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out of the thousands that apply each

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each nasa center hosts 20 to 24

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educators in either new mast or newest

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i'm really kind of proud that we can be

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part of a program that helps

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elementary school teachers

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do the very difficult job that you all

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know better or better than i do that you

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it's awfully important for

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to do what you're doing you know we have

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an administrator who's

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the head of nasa who's absolutely

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uh committed to using

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nasa which has kind of a unique

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uh charm or unique appeal i think to our

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with the astronauts and the flying and

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all that sort of stuff

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that really does capture them i know it

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captures my little boy

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captures them and maybe even coops them

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into doing some of the tougher

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coursework as the program began

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these 22 educators found themselves back

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in school again

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14 days of intense hands-on learning

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lecturing and field trips welcome to the

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icing research tunnel

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we'll refer to it as mostly other nasa

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facilities are in acronym irt this time

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together gave the educators a chance to

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grow together

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and develop deep friendships as well as

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grow intellectually i think the real

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intellectual impact

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as we go down the road and we look at

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some of these materials we use in our

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so um i guess for me the emotional thing

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is something of these two weeks is

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something that i'm really going to

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that's really going to stay with me i

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really want to piggyback to what ben has

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that's the personal contact that's going

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to be really something that i'm going to

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the first day of new west was a time for

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everybody to get acquainted

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get situated and get brought up to speed

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on what they could expect

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with group lectures every morning by

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john hartsfield aerospace educational

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hartsfield talked on a range of subjects

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he also had some materials to let the

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additionally hartsville introduced some

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simple projects which illustrated

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aerodynamic concepts that could be used

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your host gave talks on motivating

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refrigerator reviewed comet halley and

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right sea of nectar okay

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sea of nectar and i guarantee you can

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on how to incorporate everyday things

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the newest participants afternoons were

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filled with tours of various facilities

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engines make their thrust by taking air

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we always tell the people since we fly

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there were also group activities where

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the groups included comet halley

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all of our hunting of phone numbers and

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stuff we first got connected

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rickey on her experience in the t-34

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this plane is used by nasa lewis in

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they split up into groups and got to go

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astronaut story musgrave and the newest

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he did that on purpose

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there was a quite a message that it was

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brought home to me and it kind of pulled

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everything together that we're doing

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here

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and he said we can spend a lot of time

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and we're doing a lot of research and

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we're looking at things from different

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angles

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but do stop and look look at what we

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have right here

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he brought earth home so close to me

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that i will look at everything around me

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and much a different viewpoint than i

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had ever done before

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as the two-week session came to a close

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a banquet was held for the teachers

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after dinner the teachers had to present

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once was a lady her name was flo for a

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classroom teacher who said she had to go

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so she packed up her thing to move to

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mars but little did she know she had to

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travel through the stars cassiopeia

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andromeda hercules on the final day

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several of the teachers shared their

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impressions of the workshop with fred

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povinelli director of the administration

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and computer services directorate

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the benefits of the newest program are

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incredible they will multiply and it is

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like a ripple effect

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taking the 22 teachers that have

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experienced something here at lewis we

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will go on and spread that throughout

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the country

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the difference i think between

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passing out information to teachers at a

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convention

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meeting people at a symposium or at a

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conference and passing out information

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to twenty thousand educators the chances

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of it really getting into the classroom

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are very slim

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and then you can take 22 teachers

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bring them to a nasa center

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let them meet the people and all of a

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sudden

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the information that nasa wants to give

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us

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new ownership in it and when someone has

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an ownership in something

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you take that very personally and you

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will make sure that it is taken care of

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and it is given out to others

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what i have discovered in the two weeks

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that i've been here at lewis is that the

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people

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of the lewis research center are nasa's

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greatest resource

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they are tremendous these are

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professional people who treated us as

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professionals they opened their doors

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they opened their minds

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they would listen to us they answered

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our questions

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uh i it was exciting for us to see the

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pride that they had in their work

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there was uh one gentleman at the zero

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gravity facility

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who really took pride in what he was

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doing and he gave us that sense of pride

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that we can take back to our classrooms

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i think probably this is singularly the

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most important activity in which i could

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it was not only

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an exciting and productive experience to

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visit the laboratories to meet with the

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people to have an opportunity to ask

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questions of them

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i was particularly impressed with their

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dedication to what they're doing and

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their enthusiasm for it

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but i also gained

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much

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from the outstanding elementary school

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teachers that were involved in this

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two-week newest workshop

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these are really incredible people they

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not only talk shop

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during the time that they were at the

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louis facility

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16 hours a day and that may be a

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conservative estimate because that was

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only during the times that i saw them

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following their visit to lewis research

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center

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the newest teachers are supported and

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followed up on through the year by anita

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solars

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nasa newest coordinator at lewis

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research center

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if you are interested in learning more

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about the newest or new mass programs

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please write

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national science teachers association

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space science and technology programs

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5110 roanoke place

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suite 101

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a project that is currently aimed at

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high school students is the lewis

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research center's t-34 program

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this program involves nasa pilots and

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researchers

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as well as several area cleveland

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the plane is an old t-34 navy trainer

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that was retrieved from a storage

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facility in arizona

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and restored to its present condition by

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the lewis research center's aircraft

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maintenance division

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the plane has gotten a new lease on life

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through its use in a cooperative program

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between local schools and nasa

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the students of brother david martin at

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saint edward high school in cleveland

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are using the t-34 to measure the

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environmental impact

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that the waters of lake erie have had on

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some park beaches

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and various studies at two waste water

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treatment plants

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copley high school near akron ohio had

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their students working on several

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projects

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including aerial imaging and the

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reclamation of land

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the t-34 project is designed to excite

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students about scientific research

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to get involved in the project the

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students had to design a program of

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study

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submit an abstract detailing what their

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study was expected to accomplish

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determine the equipment they needed

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and after the data was gathered prepare

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a report on their findings

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and they had nothing to begin with no

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cookbook recipe no guidance no hints

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they had to design it for themselves

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i want them to take the film

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see what they can do with it maybe it

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will answer the question they raised

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maybe it won't but that's the beauty of

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science and in that sense it'll be a

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real learning experience it's not

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something that was given to them they

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can see now that they can put something

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together which is actually their own

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in a sense they are creating something

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new for each and every one of these

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experiments we did some of the projects

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at st edwards may benefit the local

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community sometime in the future

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working on the west side of cleveland

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some students are attempting to

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determine erosion rates at edgewater

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state park

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lake erie is slowly shallowing up

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because

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there's no it's not draining the

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sediment's not draining and the water

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just hits the beach and it just takes

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all the sediment with it so it's it's

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rapidly deteriorating and there's no

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there's nothing to stop the

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erosion there's no plants or grass with

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this picture and several others we can

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establish the fact that erosion does

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occur at edgewater park and it occurs

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rather rapidly in

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using plants and bushes we can stop the

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erosion

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another group of students is working on

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the east side of cleveland at the

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easterly wastewater treatment plant

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they are trying to determine the effects

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of the effluent plume from the plant

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on the surrounding waters of lake erie

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by taking various measurements on the

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ground

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then comparing these with the

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photographs taken both with regular

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color film

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and infrared film they hope to see how

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the fluent warms the waters near the

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site

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and if the chemistry of the water is

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affected

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at copley high school in akron ohio the

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studies focused on aerial imaging

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what was the minimum size an object

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could be before it couldn't be resolved

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along with optical illusions and shadows

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and heights

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we set one up this time that deals with

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optical illusions another one dealing

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with shadows for measuring

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uh heights and distances apart

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from tires

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and we did some with the speed of the

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plane and velocity of the wind

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so they're set up

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to try to take a look at can you

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determine things

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from looking at aerial photographs when

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on the ground

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side testing it with the nasa project we

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could really work together and

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it's much more on the spot

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you can uh

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from the textbooks you can just read

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about it but from going outside and

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actually being in the pictures you know

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analyzing the pictures you can just

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learn so much more

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in the future it is hoped that other

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cleveland area schools will get involved

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in the t-34 project

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one goal of the project is to involve

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more students and schools in a wider

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area someday

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but for now

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some of the cleveland areas young

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students are getting a head start on

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tomorrow's problems today

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in the time that we have left let's

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watch a short piece from nasa

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headquarters on the space exploration

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initiative

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history proves that we have never lost

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by pressing the limits of our frontiers

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last july president bush set new goals

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for america's space program when he

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announced the national space exploration

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initiative

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first for the coming decade for the

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1990s space station freedom

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our critical next step in all our space

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endeavors

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and next for the new century

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back to the moon

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back to the future

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and then a journey into tomorrow

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a journey to another planet

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inspired by the president's declaration

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research into ways of permanently

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returning to the moon and exploring mars

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is accelerating throughout government

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industry and academia

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inflatable modules protected by lunar

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soil and linked together to form an

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expandable base are under study

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to explore mars engineers are looking

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into a number of robotic rovers that

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could serve as pathfinders for manned

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missions in this scenario a mars

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spaceship is assembled in orbit using a

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robot arm

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heavy launch vehicles haul up its major

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once the ship is complete a shuttle

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brings in the flight crew

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upon reaching the planet a crew-carrying

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lander separates from the mothership

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guided by information from an earlier

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rover mission it is steered to a

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pre-planned touchdown spot

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providing a base for mars operations

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to ensure that no approach to building a

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lunar base and exploring mars is

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overlooked

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nasa administrator richard truly

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recently launched a nationwide outreach

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program

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seeking new and innovative ideas

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the program includes more than 3200

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letters from truly to universities and

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professional societies an announcement

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to industry in commerce business daily

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a review of federally sponsored research

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and a study by the american institute of

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aeronautics and astronautics

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nasa's even established this toll-free

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telephone number for anyone who would

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the outreach effort offers this

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country's best and brightest a chance to

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station freedom

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a lunar base

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and journey to mars

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a comprehensive plan to extend human

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well that's all for this edition of nasa

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report to education

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i hope that you enjoyed the show and

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will join us next time

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until then this is lynn bondurant saying

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goodbye from the teacher resource center