einstein said that imagination is more
important than knowledge
imagination lets us journey to locations
that we might otherwise never have the
opportunity to visit
imagination allows us to touch the
future
using imagination as well as simulation
enables students in this case to take a
space shuttle flight into space aboard a
school bus
their mission requires a rendezvous and
a flight to another school while doing
experiments and other activities along
the way
during the next few minutes you will be
viewing scenes taken during the 1987
simulated shuttle mission with a
rendezvous at the nasa lewis research
center and a landing back at the home
school
this activity required the support of
the nasa lewis research center the
private sector
educators students parents and the
community
a great partnership to launch a dream a
typical simulated space shuttle mission
is divided into three parts
there is the pre-flight
flight and post-flight activities
the completion of each of these
activities calls upon creative use of
materials and personnel
during the pre-flight the bus is
transformed into a space shuttle
at the same time the student astronauts
are selected and trained
all of the students in each school are
involved in some aspect of the flight
whether it be designing the patch
creating the spacesuit
preparing the meals
developing the payloads and flight
experiments
loading the shuttle or any other of the
myriad of tasks required to ready the
shuttle for flight
the moment arrives it's time for liftoff
with the orbit achieved it's now time to
complete all of the tasks call for in
the flight plan
including a rendezvous by all of the
shuttles at the nasa lewis research
center
the successful flights end with a
touchdown back at the home school
now there are debriefings and
recognition programs for a job well done
and a post flight celebration at
cleveland state university in the
evening
bye
oh would you like
mission controller from victory to
calling
this is mission control go ahead what
you're doing
i'm being photographed here
on victory
four
three
two
one
liftoff
all right and we have lift up perfect
is
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two three o'clock four o'clock
five six seven o'clock eight o'clock
nine ten eleven
up tonight
when the clock
around the clock
tonight
around tonight
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