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The Good Old WATTS Line

Pressing 8
Live From the Stratosphere




After pressing 8 you will hear:

This mailbox details our second series of electronic field trips, entitled "Live From the Stratosphere".

Although the interactive components are no longer "live", this project is still accessible via five videotapes, the printed teacher's guide and mini-kit, and extensive online resources.

Live From the Stratosphere, active during September and October,1995, took students and educators, at schools and science museums around the country on "virtual flights" aboard NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory, or "KAO". This C-141 jet was equipped with an infrared telescope and -- for over 20 years of breakthrough discoveries -- flew at heights up to 45,000 feet to study planets, stars, and galaxies.

In its last weeks of active deployment, for the first time ever, the KAO participated in live video, audio, and data downlinks, allowing interaction with astronomers, flight crew and airborne teachers and students as they searched the heavens.

There were five broadcasts:

    Science in the Stratosphere (30 min) -- intended as a teacher training tape...
    Program 2: The Pre-Flight Briefing (1 hour)
    Program 3: The Jupiter Mission (a 2 1/2 hour daytime flight), and
    Program 4: Night Flight to the Stars (5 hours) -- supported by
    overnight camp-ins at many schools and science centers.
    Program 5 Return to the Stratosphere (1 hour) served as a compilation of the entire Live From the Stratosphere project and contains "best of" moments from the entire video series.
Call NASA Core at 216-774-1051 to order tapes. You can access our web site at: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/lfs/lfsnew.html, that's q-u-e-s-t-dot-a.r.c.nasa.gov

3To order the Teacher's Guide and mini-kit, call back and check mailbox 3. This mailbox is not accepting messages. Thank you for your interest in Live From The Stratosphere. We hope you'll join us for our current project, Live From the Hubble Space Telescope.

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