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A Day in the Life of the ISS

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  Project VIEW has collaborated with Ball State University Space Center Houston and Johnson Space Center to develop and broadcast a live electronic field trip which aired Tuesday October 23rd live from Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. 

The 90-minute broadcast featured interactive lessons with  scientists, engineers, astronauts, and other  personnel from Johnson Space Center and Space Center Houston.

The project explores a number of lessons including the evolution of space, ISS Assembly, Astronaut Training, Life in Space and the Life of an  Astronaut, Space Facts, Gravity and Weightlessness, Neutral Buoyancy and the Future of Space.  The broadcast was shot live from Space Center Houston and the ISS Module at Johnson Space Center.  In addition to exploring the ISS module and talking with NASA experts, the broadcast featured live interactive feeds from the Neutral Buoyancy Lab and Aquarius.During the interactive Electronic Field Trip, millions of students from around the country  in grades 5 - 9  phoned in and emailed questions regarding the material presented. 

Play the 90-Minute Broadcast

ISS

Spacesuits

The NBL

Words, Terms and Phrases

100 Missions

Q & A

Student Project Patches

Meet The Student Participants

Did you Know?

 

 

Astronauts and scientists answered their questions live.  The broadcast also featured a number of hands-on classroom experiments and lessons.
A Project VIEW team of teachers has  collaborated with NASA experts and together they  have developed inter-disciplinary curriculum,  activities and suggested materials which  support and enhance the project.  (The materials found here  continue to support use of the
taped version. While the tape is not live, you can e-mail or call members of the project team or Project VIEW with questions about the project.)

Since 1998, sixteen world nations have  collaborated to construct, operate and utilize the International Space Station.  

Through space-based research, scientists hope to advance basic science dealing with fundamental physics, gravitational biology and ecology, Earth and space science.