The Men and Women of Space Team Online join Classroom Today! The Focus of the Week: What makes a Space Shuttle Mission successful? Who contributes to a successful mission? and What jobs do they do? Use Classroom Today's NASA: A Shuttle Mission to prepare for the following live events.

Monday, March 13
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The Shuttle A very special airplane See what's happening at Classroom Today! Answer today's Daily Question: What is the Space Shuttle?	Aerospace Engineering & Design Meteorology/Safety	Chat with a Panel of Experts Read the Archive	As Chief of the Applied Meteorology Unit, Frank Merceret is involved in the safety of spaceflight operations - launches, landings and ground operations - from the weather standpoint Ken Schrock works at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and has had so many jobs as an engineer with NASA that he titles himself a kitchen sink engineer. He is primarily working with Global Positioning System (GPS). Leslie Ringo is one of the engineers responsible for ensuring the Vertical Motion Simulator responds exactly as a real aircraft would for training purposes. (Also see upcoming March 21, 2000 chat.) Andrew Petro will join us if scheduling permits. Andrew is a spacecraft designer and plans future projects and designs spacecraft.
A Bonus Astronaut WebCast	HUD and NASA Quest partner to help "Close the Digital Divide	Read the Archived Chat See the Video achive Read a Behind-the-Scenes Journal	Astronaut Michael P. Anderson visits with youth in HUD supported computer labs across the country.

Tuesday, March 14
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The Mission The reason for the flight See what's happening at Classroom Today! Answer today's Daily Question: What is the purpose of a Space Shuttle mission?	Scientists, Payloads Trainers	Chat with a Panel of Experts Read the Archive	Tracy Gill works in the Space Station Utilization Division of the Space Station and Shuttle Payloads Directorate, which means he works to install the experiment hardware into the Shuttle and then tests all the power, video, cooling, and data interfaces, so the experiment will work successfully once it reaches orbit. Diane McMahon's job is to get payloads stowed on the shuttle and then transferred and integrated onto the ISS (International Space Station) to do science experiment / research work.

Wednesday, March 15
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Landing to Launch Preparing the Shuttle	Ground Crew Engineers	Question forum and RealVideo See WebCast instructions below View the archive	The long trip to the Launch Pad Originally planned for February, Mike and Brandt show you up close the Mobile Launch Platform, the Crawler and the Crawlerway - describing that 3 1/2 mile pilgrimage. Details of the webcast including lesson plans are available.
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Landing to Launch Preparing the Shuttle See what's happening at Classroom Today! Answer today's Daily Question: How does the Space Shuttle take off and land?	Ground Crew Engineers	Read the archive.	Follow-on Chat: In coordination with Classroom Connect, we will have experts chatting about Shuttle preparation. Currently scheduled are: As Vehicle Manager for Discovery, Jenny Lyons follows the orbiter through ground testing and checkout at KSC. Also she is a Convoy Commander for Landing. Chuck Davis is a storable propellants engineer, which means he is in charge of having the required fuel delivered to Shuttle launch pad.

Thursday, March 16
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Launch to Landing In-flight Operations Answer today's Daily Question: What do workers at NASA do while the Shuttle is in space?	Launch Control, Mission Control Payloads Control	Chat with a Panel of Experts Read the Archive	As Space Shuttle Flight Controller, Mike Moses monitors data from the Space Shuttle during missions to make sure all systems are operating as planned. Lisa Shore is the first woman to be certified as an Ascent Flight Dynamics Officer (FDO, pronounced fido). During a misson, she is responsible for knowing where the Shuttle is at all times. (Also see upcoming March 21, 2000 chat.) William Foster works in Mission Control Center at the Johnson Space Center where he is responsible maintaining voice and data communications between the MCC and the space shuttle. Prior to his present position as sim sup, Tim Terry was responsible for training specific crews for specific missions. Now as sim sup, he prepares the flight control teams. Larry Parker is an Air Traffic Controller at the Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility. Robert Dempsey is a flight controller for the International Space Station and works with the computer system that will operate the station.

Friday, March 17
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Astronauts Humans in Space Answer today's Daily Question: What do astronauts do aboard the Space Shuttle?	Astronauts, Astronaut Support	Read the Archive	Ron Woods works with a team that finalizes all space suits and maintains the launch/entry suits (the orange space suits) that the astronauts use. They also prepare any equipment that the astronauts will use for the duration of their mission.
		Chat with an Astronaut Read the archive.	Astronaut Linda Godwin will join us to answer your questions about humans in space. A veteran of three space flights, Dr. Godwin has logged over 633 hours in space, including a 6-hour spacewalk. In 1991 she served as a Mission Specialist on STS-37, was the Payload Commander on STS-59 in 1994, and in 1996 was on the crew of STS-76, a Mir docking mission.