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UPDATE #40 - November 6, 1998 PART 1: Upcoming Chats UPCOMING CHATS
Tuesday, November 10, 1998, 11 AM Pacific Time: Gloria Yamauchi, aerospace engineer Gloria conducts research in rotor aerodynamics and acoustics. The objectives of her work are to understand the flow environment of rotor blades which, in turn, help her understand why rotors perform the way they do and why they make so much noise. To study the rotor wake, she sometimes runs large computer programs which simulate the air flow around the blades. Read Gloria Yamauchi's autobiography prior to joining this chat. http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/team/yamauchi.html Registration information at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/chats/#chatting Tuesday, November 17, 1998, 11 AM Pacific Time: Rich Coppenbarger, aerospace engineer Rich develops systems (hardware and software) to assist air traffic controllers in managing aircraft as they fly through the nation's airspace. Read Rich Coppenbarger's autobiography prior to joining this chat. http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/team/coppenbarger.html Registration information at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/chats/#chatting As part of our continuing series of after school chats, we would like to invite you to join our next chats scheduled coming up this month. Our first after school chat will be with Jack Farmer, an exobiologist and member of Mars Team Online/Space Scientists Online projects. This chat is scheduled for Thursday, November 12, at 3:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. More information about this chat is available at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/events/interact.html Our next after school chat will be with Nancy Dorighi, a computer engineer and member of the Women of NASA project. Our chat with Nancy is scheduled for Wednesday, November 18, at 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time. More information about this chat is available at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/won-chat.html. We hope you will be able to join us for our upcoming after school chats with Jack Farmer and Nancy Dorighi. You can learn about upcoming chats with other NASA experts on our schedule of events page, at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/common/events. We hope to hear from you online! PROJECT NEWS
THE WRIGHT FLYER STATUS REPORT Wright Flyer Online Status Reports will appear on the site at: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/wright/news/ The following is the first of these reports: NASA/Wright Flyer wind tunnel test team meets On October 29, 1998, a meeting was held to discuss recent developments and upcoming plans to prepare the 1903 Wright Flyer replica for the wind tunnel test scheduled for March 1999. The model is currently up on a sting (as it would be in the wind tunnel test) in Hangar One. It will be dismounted on November 7, 1998, and engineers will then begin instrumentation work. Other information discussed in the meeting included: Plans for a live broadcast when the Flyer replica is moved from Hangar One to the test prep room in the National Full-scale Aerodynamic Complex (December/January) Data acquisition and processing plans Possible early installation in the wind tunnel -------------- Hangar One: http://george.arc.nasa.gov/jf/mfa/facilities.html#Buildings THE WRIGHT BROTHER TIMES A graphic representation of the timeline is now online at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/wright/background/timeline/timeline_core.html It's fun to look at because the graphic version uses a newspaper headline format. CORELATION TO NATIONAL STANDARDS Have you been searching the website looking for a way to justify participating in Wright Flyer Online? You can find the corelation to the National Education Standard in the Teachers Lounge at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/wright/teachers/standards/ POSTER CONTEST! Help us advertise the wind tunnel test of the 1903 Wright Flyer! For more info go to: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/wright/events/contest/poster.html COLABORATIVE PROJECTS Wonder what kind of news classrooms share in collaborative projects? Here's a clip from what one class wrote: "We are using the Problem Solving Process to design recycled planes. We hope to test our gliders and finish our recycled planes this week. Most of my students are really enjoying this project. They can hardly wait to get started each day. Some, jokingly I am sure, want to come to school on the weekend. Oh my!" This class is participating in the Right Flying project where classes are trying to improve glider designs see below. The ELEMENTARY / MIDDLE SCHOOL - Right Flying (glider building) on-line collaborative activity is now online. http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/events/collaborative/elem-mid.html If you haven't already send an email message to listmanager@quest.arc.nasa.gov leave the subject blank and in the message body write subscribe debate-aero The HIGH SCHOOL / JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL - Free Flight Analysis: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/events/collaborative/video.html an "in-flight" movie" online collaborative project for grades 8-12 is now online. To join the discussion list for this project send an email to Scott at scolett@quest.arc.nasa.gov In your message include information about who you are and why you are interested in participating. HIGH SCHOOL / JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL - Wind tunnel building activities are online at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/events/collaborative/wind_tunnel.html To join the discussion list for this project send an email to marc@quest.arc.nasa.gov In your message tell us who you are and why you are interested. For more information go to http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/events/collaborative/index.html [Editor's Note: Ray Oyung is the Research Coordinator for the Fatigue Countermeasures Program which is one of the Human Factors areas of research. Lately he has been working on and experiment that goes up on STS-95. Read his bio and journals at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/team/ray.html ] LAUNCH AT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER by Ray Oyung November 14, 1998 STS-95 launched on October 28, 1998 at 2:19 p.m. The day could not have been better and several of us on the Sleep Team had the pleasure of seeing the launch 46 miles from the launch pad, 39-B along a small body of water separating us from the launch area called a causeway. In addition to seeing the launch under a clear blue sky with very little wind, an orbiter was also on the other launch pad, 39-A. That shuttle is getting ready for a November 20, 1998 scheduled launch to deploy the first piece of the International Space Station. Now before I go on, here's a little primer on shuttle anatomy. The orbiter is the whole vehicle that we see on the launch pad. It consists of the 2 recoverable booster rockets along the side of the great big orange tank in the middle. This tank is the external fuel tank that holds the majority of the solid rocket fuel the shuttle burns. To learn more about the orbiter, check out this URL: http://shuttle.nasa.gov/reference/shutref/ If any of you are interested in viewing a shuttle launch, below is a URL for more information. Anyone can view the launch and they're free of charge. For most folks, the trick is finding the time and money to get to Florida. If you can find both, here's the link: http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/carpass/carpass.htm There were loud speakers lined along the opposite side of the road from this viewing area and an announcer provided regular updates of shuttle activities prior to launch. As the announcer's countdown reached zero, everyone saw a billowing cloud form into a large plume of rocket exhaust and steam. Thousands of gallons of water are used to spray down the launch pad to keep it relatively cool under the intense rocket blast which occurs during lift off. It was an amazing thing watching the orbiter accelerate from zero to over 1,000 mph in just a few seconds. At 25 miles overhead, the orbiter was racing along at over 2,000 mph. By the time the shuttle reaches orbit and begins circling around the earth, it will be moving along at the steady pace of about 180,000 mph! Seeing the launch was only half the experience. Sound travels through the air at a certain speed. Just a few seconds after seeing the orbiter launch, we were able to feel and hear the tremendous rumble produced from the main engines. After the launch the following day, we joined the rest of the Sleep Team at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas to help monitor the mission in the Science Center of Mission Control -we're just getting started- SUBSCRIBING AND UNSUBSCRIBING
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