No, our LiveChat was not early this week! We still have our regular event on Thursday night at 8:00pm CT. But we have had many students ask if they could be held at different times and dates. We feel it is important to have a regular event the whole OLC can depend on, but want to offer some additional chats others may join. So occasionally there will be an additional chat offered. It will have its own sign up area on the Discussion Board, and will vary in time and day offered. On Tuesday we had one of these special LiveChats on our featured NASA Center, the Ames Research Center.
64 participants heard about the ARC from K-12 Education Specialist Jonas Dino. Mr. Dino gave a brief history of ARC (did you know it was older then NASA?) and then highlighted many of the different missions that are directed by ARC. One of these is the development of air flight management techniques that will provide safer more speedy service. Check out this video that shows total flights across the US during a single 24 hour period:
We had lots and lots of questions, so many that we ran out of time. These extra questions were sent to Mr. Dino to be answered off line. I’ll post them here when they are ready.
Thursday, we will have our regular LiveChat with Jeffery Kolodziejczak and Tony Lyons of Marshall Space Flight Center. He’ll talk about the Gravity Probe B which helped confirm Einstein’s theory of gravity. Our participant limit has been reached, so if you did not get a chance to sign up plan on viewing the event in the archive.
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