Our series of Virtual SpaceTV 3D shows with Amanda Bush and James C. Birk has been on an hiatus for what we hope will be a short break. Here is a brief update from Amanda:
Find previous Virtual SpaceTV 3D shows on the HobbySpace Youtube Channel.
Category Archives: Education
12th Annual NASA Student Launch Initiative competition in Alabama this week
NASA says that “more than 600 students, representing 56 middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities in 26 states, will” participate in the 12th annual Student Launch Initiative, this Saturday in Toney, Alabama:
- Local Media Invited to NASA Student Launch Projects Events April 19-20 – NASA
- Rockets to take flight over North Alabama on Saturday in NASA’s annual student competition – al.com
Here is a list of the teams: NASA Student Launch Projects
The event will be webcast at NASA MSFC on USTREAM: Science.
Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures available on line
An announcement from Andrew Fraknoi, chairman of the Astronomy program at Foothill College:
Popular Astronomy Lectures Can Now Be Seen on YouTube
We are happy to announce that the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures, featuring noted scientists giving nontechnical illustrated lectures on recent developments in astronomy, are now available on their own YouTube Channel, at: http://www.youtube.com/SVAstronomyLectures/
The talks include:
- Frank Drake discussing his modern view of the Drake Equation,
- Michael Brown explaining how his discovery of Eris led to the demotion of Pluto,
- Alex Filippenko talking about the latest ideas and observations of black holes,
- Natalie Batalha sharing the latest planet discoveries from the Kepler mission,
- nthony Aguirre discussing how it is possible to have multiple universes, and
- Chris McKay updating the Cassini discoveries about Saturn’s moon Titan.
The lectures are taped at Foothill College near San Francisco, and co-sponsored by NASA’s Ames Research Center, the SETI Institute, and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Note that the top page of the channel shows the lectures in the order they happened to be uploaded to YouTube. If you want to see them in chronological order, select the Playlist option.
Both new and older talks in the series will be added to the channel as time goes by. Many noted astronomers have given talks in this series since its founding in 1999; recent lectures are being recorded so that people around the world can “tune in.”
We appreciate your sharing this information with colleagues, students, and interested astronomy enthusiasts.
SciShow: We’re going asteroid wranglin’!
Hank of the SciShow says, “We’re Going Asteroid Wranglin’!”
JP Aerospace flies 2000 PongSats
JP Aerospace had a productive week: Mission Success! – JP Aerospace Blog
We flew just over 2000 PongSat student experiments, the most we’ve ever flown at once. All five launches were in winds that were steady 20 with gusts to 46 mph.
