By Jim Gerard, INSPIRE Education Specialist, KSC, FL
The International Space Station is the greatest engineering feat of modern technology, and was the subject of our Live Chat last night with electrical engineer Sharish patel from Kennedy Space Center. 46 12th grade seniors heard a brief overview of the mission of the ISS, and had an extended Q & A with Mr. Patel. Mr. Patel answered questions about the future of the ISS, careers in computer engineering, and even the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence! This chat will available in the Live Chat Archive as an Elluminate file, an MP3 audio file, and a Quicktime video for downloading to your portable media device. Next week, Curtis Frodge from Johnson Space Center will talk about Robotics and Robonaut 2 to our freshman class. Be there at 8 pm CT on Thursday November 4!
One technical aspect of last nights chat that was unique was that I moderated it from a hotel room in Oklahoma City. I and my fellow INSPIRE education specialist spent the week at home base in Stillwater, Oklahoma with our valued staff at Oklahoma State University. They do so much to provide the support we need to have a viable, thriving virtual community. We planned for the remainder of the school year, and you are going to enjoy seeing some of the changes and improvements in the OLC over the coming months.
One more thing - I will be tweeting live from the Monday November 1 launch of Discovery. Follow @Nasainspire and leave me questions.
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