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ATO # 93 - January 21, 2000 PART 1: Upcoming Chat UPCOMING CHATS
QuestChats require pre-registration. Unless otherwise noted, registration is at: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/chats/#chatting Tuesday, February 1, 2000, 10:30 - 11: 30 AM Pacific Aerospace Team Online QuestChat with Gavin Botha Gavin Botha uses two of the world's largest wind tunnels to test full size aircraft. A Regimes of Flight Chat! Read Gavin's biography at http://quest.nasa.gov/aero/team/botha.html Thursday, February 10, 2000 10 AM - 11 AM Pacific Aerospace Team Online QuestChat with Kelly McEntire Kelly McEntire manages a small group of mechanical, aerospace and structural engineers, responsible for supporting the aeropropulsion engineers (a.k.a., rocket scientists) in their lab. Read his biography at http://quest.nasa.gov/aero/team/mcentire.html Wedmesday, February 16, 2000, 1:00 PM Regimes of Flight Chat with Steve Smith Steve Smith is an aerospace research engineer who studies how airplanes will perform at different speeds. Right now he's researching supersonic flight and he uses computers, wind tunnels and is build his own plane. Read his bio at http://quest.nasa.gov/aero/team/smith.html Thursday, March 2, 2000 10 AM - 11 AM Pacific Aerospace Team Online QuestChat with Earl Duque Earl Duque studies how air flows around, through, and under objects such as wings, propellers and aircraft vehicles. Read his biography at http://quest.nasa.gov/aero/team/duque.html BLACK HISTORY MONTH CHAT SERIES series of QuestChats and forums with African American scientists and engineers who contribute their work in support of NASA's mission and goals. The schedule which may be added to over time can be found at http://quest.nasa.gov/qchats/special/mlk00/ Some of these are of special interest to Aerospace Team Online participants! Thursday, February 3, 2000, 1:00 AM Pacific Laurie Marshall, Aerospace Engineer, Dryden Flight Research Center Laurie is an Aerospace Engineer. Her recent work included a laminar flow study of the wings of the F-16XL#2. Read her biography at http://quest.nasa.gov/women/bios/lm.html Tuesday, February 8 - Thursday, February 10, 2000 Pacific Forum(questions not answered live during three day period) with Julie Williams-Byrd Electronics Engineer/Aerospace Technologist, Langley Research Center Julie designs and builds lasers to investigate the makeup of the atmosphere. Read her biography at http://quest.nasa.gov/women/bios/jwb.html Tuesday, February 8, 2000, 9:00 AM Pacific Chat with Kim Hubbard, Computer Scientist Kim works on system engineering and software development. She has helped to network computers in space. Read her biography at http://quest.nasa.gov/women/bios/kh.html Thursday, February 24, 2000, 9 AM Pacific Chat with Aprille Ericsson-Jackson, Ph.D., Aerospace Engineer Aprille works on guidance, navigation and control, and design analysis at Goddard Space Flight Center. Read her bio at http://quest.nasa.gov/space/frontiers/ericsson.html PROJECT NEWS
NEW URL Save on typing, you can now access NASA Quest at http://quest.nasa.gov/ The old URL will continue to work. NEW CONTENT Sneak preview the "Regimes of Flight" a new resource for teachers and students about flight at different speeds. This will be targeted for grades 4-8. You will find background material, lesson plans, chats and contests!! For more information see http://quest.nasa.gov/aero/events/regimes - - - - - - CONTESTS Regimes of Flight Class Mural Contest, Grades 4-8 January 25 - March 2,2000 For each regime (low, medium, high, supersonic, hypersonic) classes will submit a mural that visually depicts not only the definition and description of the category, but also visually depicts aircraft from that category (Note: Key word "visually" means no words). For more information: go to http://quest.nasa.gov/aero/events/regimes/contest.html |
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