Wed, Sep 10, 2008
Garriott To Conduct YouTube Lessons For Students While In
Orbit
Richard Garriott, the next civilian
'tourinaut' slated to fly into space and son of NASA's Skylab
Astronaut Owen Garriott, plans to take up where Educator Astronaut
Barbara Morgan left off to inspire the next generation. Garriott is
conducting educational activities as a part of his scheduled flight
to the International Space Station, slated for October in
partnership with the Challenger Center for Space Science
Education.
Garriott's efforts will continue Barbara Morgan and Christa
McAuliffe's legacy of teaching from space and will reach children
around the world from the International Space Station during a
series of recorded on orbit activities and live downlinks with
students.
Over the past several months, Richard has conducted interactive
webcasts about his astronaut training in Russia, and recorded a
series of podcast interviews with Challenger Center for students.
Teachers and their students can replicate various activities to
demonstrate important concepts in physics that Richard plans to do
in space; and share their predictions about what might happen
during the same experiment in the microgravity (weightless)
environment of space online.
Lessons in support of Richard Garriott's on-orbit activities,
plus his archived webcasts, podcasts, and blogs, and student's
predications submitted by YouTube video are available on the
Challenger Center's national website.
The Challenger Center for Space Science Education was founded in
1986 by the families of the astronauts of the space shuttle
Challenger 51-L mission. It is dedicated to the educational spirit
of that mission and impacts over 300,000 students and 25,000
teachers each year.
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