Category Archives: Education

Education, Space camps & hands on sims, Space participation

The Honeywell Educators @ Space Academy program

Tampa, Florida middle school teachers take advantage of the Honeywell Educators @ Space Academy program at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama: Fox Hollow teacher over the moon about Space Academy experience – Tampa Bay Online

More about the Space Academy :

Created in partnership with the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC), this professional development program is designed to help middle school math and science teachers from around the world become more effective educators in science, technology, engineering, and math. Educators are empowered with supplemental teaching techniques through simulated astronaut training and innovative educational tools that help bring science to life in the classroom

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Honeywell Educators @ Space Academy takes place at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) in Huntsville, Alabama. The USSRC is recognized as one of the most comprehensive U.S. manned space flight hardware museums in the world. Facilities at the center include Spacedome Theater, Rocket Park, the Education Training Center (NASA’s Educator Resource Center) — and more!

Astronomy, Education, Simulators

The Space Engine freeware simulator

The Space Engine is

a freeware space simulation software that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, starting from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets – all available for exploration.

Here are a couple of videos describing the program:

Find more space sim links in the HobbySpace Space Simulations section.

Education, Spaceflight & Parabolic Flight

Charles Simonyi at the Kansas Cosmosphere

Billionaire Charles Simonyi, who flew twice to the ISS at his own expense (see Charles in Space), visits the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson, Kansas and there is a lot of mutual admiration :  Kansas Cosmosphere impresses visiting billionaire space tourist – Wichita Eagle.

Education, Rockets

Rocket launch by the Portland State Aerospace Society

Via Ben Brockert comes news of the launch on Sunday of the Portland State Aerospace Society of the student built  LV2.3 rocket with active roll control: PSAS Launch-10 — June 30, 2013.

There were lots of Twitter posts during the event: PSAS (pdxaerospace) on Twitter

They posted this today – PSAS (pdxaerospace) on Twitter

A picture of yesterday’s launch: pic.twitter.com/RLAoTinuPB

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It looks great at liftoff but they posted this today – Twitter / pdxaerospace:

@wikkit Thanks! The bad news is roll control failed for an unknown reason about 5 seconds into the flight.

It nevertheless released its parachute properly and was recovered intact.

 

Astronomy, Education, Space participation

Planetary Resources exceeds $1.5M for Arkyd space telescope Kickstarter

The Planetary Resources Kickstarter  campaign to fund the ARKYD public space telescope ended this evening with 17,612 backers pledging $1,505,276 towards the original goal of $1,000,000. Richard Branson is adding another $100k.

Congratulations to the PRI team on a very successful crowdfunding effort and a great public participation project that will be active for many years.