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ISS: A Home in Microgravity
Why are we building the International Space Station?
What are the benefits to us on Earth? What is different about living and
working in space?
During the 2001-2002 scholastic year our adventure
surrounded human space exploration. We sought to understand the unique
challenges of designing for life and work in
microgravity and how the construction the International Space Station
will benefit life on Earth. We traveled to various NASA Centers to follow
the progress of the design and construction of the ISS and visited with
scientists preparing experiments for space.
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September 2001 Programming
Thursday,
September 20
10:00-11:30 AM Pacific
1:00-2:30 PM Eastern
1700-1830 GMT
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Living in Space Begins on Earth
Learn how NASA is using plants and microbial systems to develop
life support for long-duration space flight. Look into the ecological
research at KSC designed to protect the environment.
More information and lesson helps
Due to technical difficulties we were unable to archive this
event.
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Thursday,
September 27
10:00-11:00 AM Pacific
1:00-2:00 PM Eastern
1700-1800 GMT
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Living in Space Begins on Earth
Expert Carlton
Hall will explain why it's important to protect our endangered
plants and animals at KSC. Join Carlton in the chat room to discuss
a very important resource, our planet Earth!
More information and lesson helps
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October 2001 Programming
Thursday,
October 18
10-11:30 AM Pacific
1-2:30 PM Eastern
1700-1830 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Microgravity: Biology in Space
Biology in microgravity is the study of the effects of the space
environment on living organisms from bacterial to humans. Join
us as Tom Dreschel discusses this research that will help us understand
what will happen to the human body when exposed to the space environment
for long periods.
Read Tom
Dreschel's bio
More information is available
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your classroom
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Thursday,
October 25
8:30-9:30 AM Pacific
11:30-12:30PMEastern
1530-1630 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Aquarius, an Analog to Space Travel
Join us live from underwater, off the coast of the Florida Keys,
in a submersible deep-sea habitat called the Aquarius. NASA is
interested in finding out if this facility could help us understand
and prepare for long-term space travel.
Learn more from Bill Todd's
Journal.
Learn more about this event
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Thursday,
October 25
11 AM-12 Noon Pacific
2-3:00 PM Eastern
1800-1900 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity in cooperation with Centennial
of Flight:
Vertical Motion Simulator
Join us for a webcast from the Vertical Motion Simulator, at
NASA Ames Research Center where Astronaut pilot Kenneth
Ham will test the maneuverability of 2nd Generation Reusable
Launch Vehicles.
Learn more about
this series
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Friday,
October 26
10-11:00 AM Pacific
1-2:00 PM Eastern
1700-1800 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Chat with Tom Dreschel
This chat is a follow-up on the webcast entitled Microgravity:
Biology in Space (See October 18)
Read Tom
Dreschel's bio
More information is available.
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November Programming
Thursday,
November 8
10-11:30 AM Pacific
1-2:30 PM Eastern
1700-1830 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Launch Support Hardware
This webcast will discuss the needs of Life Science experiments
in the space environment compared to Earth's environment. Launch
Support Hardware (habitats) give NASA the ability to launch experiments
aboard the shuttle, fly them in the ISS and then astronauts prepare
them for the ride home to Earth.
Read Deborah Wells' Bio
More information
is available.
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Tuesday,
November 20
10 -11 AM Pacific
1 - 2 PM Eastern 1700-1800 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Station News
Network(SNN) Presents: Station Updates - The News Program just
for Students about the International Space Station
More information is available
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Wednesday
November 28
11 AM-12 Noon Pacific
2:00-3:00 PM Eastern
1900-2000 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
A Live Virtual Tour of the International
Space Station from Johnson Space Center.
You are invited to join our tour guide for
a live tour of the International Space Station mockup and training
facility. Ask your questions during the tour and have them answered
during the event.
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December Programming
Tuesday
December 18
11 AM-12 Noon Pacific
2-3:00 PM Eastern
1900-2000 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Station News Network (SNN) Presents:
Station Updates - The News Program just for Students about
the International Space Station
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January Programming
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Thursday
January 10
10 - 11 AM Pacific
2 - 3 PM Eastern 1800-1900 GM
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Station News
Network(SNN) Presents: Station Updates - The News Program just
for Students about the International Space Station
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Tuesday
January 29
11 -Noon Pacific
2-3 PM Eastern
1900-2000 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
What is Microgravity?
Join us on an expedition to the world of microgravity. Often
misperceived as weightlessness or zero gravity, microgravity is
the unique gravitational environment astronauts experience on
a spacecraft orbiting the earth. Joining us will be John Charles,
who specializes in the effects of spaceflight on the heart and
blood vessels.
Read Expert John Charles'
Profile
Microgravity
Lesson Plans
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Thursday
January 31
10:30-11:30 PT
1:30-2:30 PM ET
1830-1930 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Chat with Liz Stryjewski
Liz Stryjewski
will follow up on the January 24 webcast from the Kennedy Space
Center, where she works on the RASTA project. She is studying
the effects of the space flight environment on radish growth and
development.
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February Programming
Thursday
February 21
10-11:00 PT
1-2:00 PM ET
1800-1900 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Recycling in Space
Follow-up chat from the webcast February 14 in which Scientist
Jay Garland will answer your questions on what measures are being
taken to make long duration flights into space a possibility.
Read Jay
Garland's bio
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Monday
February 25
11 AM-12 Noon Pacific
2:00-3:000 PM Eastern
1900-2000 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Station News from JSC
Network(SNN) Presents: Station Updates - The News Program just
for Students about the International Space Station
Expert Brian Au, is a senior project engineer for EarthKAM, a payload
designed especially for middle school students to conduct research
projects using images of the Earth taken from space.
Read Brian
Au's Bio
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Tuesday
February 26
11 AM-12 Noon Pacific
2:00-3:00 PM Eastern
1900-2000 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity: National Engineers'
Week
JSC Co-op Students will join us to answer your
questions about the JSC Co-op Program. Engineering Students:
Read Laurie Darling's
bio
Read Louis Malone's bio
Read Fernando Zumbado's
bio
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Wednesday
February 27
8 - 9 AMPacific
11 AM-Noon Eastern
1600-1700 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity: National Engineers'
Week
Ralph Anderson's Electronics Engineer - bio coming soon.
See More Details on E-Week
More information on Black
History Chats
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Wednesday
February 27
11 AM-12 Noon Pacific
2:00-3:00 PM Eastern
1900-2000 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity: National Engineers'
Week and
Black History Month
Anthony Bruins is a systems integration engineer developing state-of-the-art
technology to support flight controllers in the Mission Control
Center (MCC).
Read Anthony Bruins' Bio
See More Details on E-Week
More information on Black
History Chats
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Thursday
February 28
11 AM-12 Noon Pacific
2:00-3:000 PM Eastern
1900-2000 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity: National Engineers'
Week
Craig Schafer Electrical Engineer/Physicist who works on ISS Microgravity
Sciences Requirements, making sure the payloads get the quiet microgravity
environment we promised them.
Read Craig Schafer's bio
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Friday
March 1
11 AM-12 Noon Pacific
2:00-3:00 PM Eastern
1900-2000 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
National Engineers' Week
Elizabeth Bloomer is a mechanical engineer and has worked in several
different areas at NASA including training astronauts to being a
flight controller for the space shuttle.
Read Elizabeth's
bio
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Tuesday
March 5
11 AM-12 Noon Pacific
2:00-3:00 PM Eastern
1900-2000 GMT
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Women's History Month
Highlighting Women in Science
Janis Davis Street is a nutritionist and works in the life sciences.
She's part of a team whose job is determining the nutritional requirements
for space flight.
Read Janis Davis Street's
bio
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Thursday
March 14
11 AM-12 Noon Pacific
2:00-3:000 PM Eastern
1900-2000 GMT
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Women's History Month
Highlighting Women in Science
Featuring:Tina
M. Bayuse, a clinical pharmacist. Tina helps other scientists
study how medications affect the body, both in space and on the
ground and helps the flight surgeons (the astronauts' doctors) decide
what medications the astronauts should use while they are in space..
Read Tina Bayuse's
bio
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Tuesday
March 19
11 AM-12 Noon Pacific
2:00-3:00 PM Eastern
1900-2000 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Astronomy
The study of astronomy takes you to the farthest reaches of space
and the innermost depths of matter and from the earliest beginning
of time to the future billions of years from now. This presentation
will introduce you to the wonders of the entire universe and discuss
the STS-109 mission to refurbish Hubble.
More information
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The Hubble telescope
has spied a giant celestial "eye," known as planetary nebula NGC
6751.
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Thursday,
March 28
10-11:30 AM Pacific
1-2:30 PM Eastern
1800-1930 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
International Science Research
Scientists from Russia, Italy and Canada will discuss the importance
of plant science research in space. Canadian Mike
Dixon will be featured in the webcast and will share his research
and experiences while working at the Kennedy Space Center.
More information is available
Interviews with experts Yuliy
Berkovich from Russia and Sabina Dore from Italy will feature
their experiences and research during hour-long chats: Yuliy, will
chat from KSC and Sabina from Italy. Dates and times will be coming
soon.
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April Programming
Thursday
April 4
11 AM-12 Noon Pacific
2:00-3:000 PM Eastern
1900-2000 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
A Live Virtual Tour of the International Space
Station from Johnson Space Center.
You are invited to join our tour guide for a
live tour of the International Space Station mockup and training
facility. Ask your questions during the tour and have them answered
during the event.
More information is available
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Monday,
April 8
10-11 AM Pacific
1-2 PM Eastern
1700-1800 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Ecology Overview follow-up chat
Do you
have questions about how will plants continue
to grow in space? Yuliy
Berkovich will be happy to talk about his research at KSC in
new root delivery systems for the future space greenhouses. Also
ask him how his research is coming along in Russia.
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Wenesday,
April 10
Postponed due to
Expert's conflict - watch here for reschedule
10-11 AM Pacific
1-2 PM Eastern
1700-1800 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Ecology Overview follow-up chat
Do you
have questions about Forest Ecology at the
Kennedy Space Center? Sabina
Dore will be happy to explain why it was important to measure
the levels of carbon dioxide and water in her plant studies.
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Thursday,
April 11
10-11:30 AM Pacific
1-2:30 PM Eastern
1700-1630 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Ecology Overview
Webcast from the Kennedy Space Center.
Our guest experts are two wildlife biologists
that work at the Kennedy Space Center. Mike
Legare, who is a certified wildlife biologist, will talk about
his research of endangered species at KSC. Doug
Scheidt a lead for the Aquatics Program, and will explain his
role in monitoring the estuaries that surround KSC.
More information is available
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Thursday,
April 18
10-11 AM Pacific
1-2 PM Eastern
1700-1800 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Ecology Overview follow-up chat
Do you
have questions about how NASA protects the
endangered species around the Center? Mike
Legare will be happy to explain why overdevelopment can cause
damage to KSC'S sensitive ecosystem.
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May Programming
Wednesday,
May 1
10-11:30 AM Pacific
1-2:30 PM Eastern
1700-1830 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Spin Offs
Joe Delai will talkabout
how NASA research has directly and indirectly impacted life on Earth
in the areas of life science, medical research, and computer technology.
More information
is available.
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Tuesday, May 21
10-11 AM Pacific
1-2 PM Eastern
1700-1830 GMT
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Spin Offs Chat with Joe Delai
Joe Delai will answer
your questiosn about how NASA research has directly and indirectly
impacted life on Earth in the areas of life science, medical research,
and computer technology.
More information
is available.
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Thursday
May 23
10 - 11 AM Pacific
2 - 3 PM Eastern
1700-1800 GM
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Station News Network (SNN) Presents:
Station Updates - The News Program just for Students about the
International Space Station
Topic: The Launch of STS-
111. Guest expert, Mike
Ciannilli will be discuss the crew for this next mission plus
the latest processing news and payload information.
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