User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.36.0.130206 Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 22:20:13 -0700 Subject: STS-16 From: Daniel Adamo Message-ID: Thread-Topic: STS-16 Thread-Index: Ac9ptAXWN+l1LlRuNkWtSEtpBiP9qw== Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="B_3552816143_4432238" > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --B_3552816143_4432238 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit ATIG Members- No, this isn't a blast from the past or a reenactment of the STS 51-D mission. It's the return-to-flight for students at Russell Elementary School in Smyrna, GA. Their 28-hour "long sim" begins this Thursday, May 8. A YouTube broadcast schedule for the simulation and associated links can be accessed at http://russellroadrunners.typepad.com/space/youtube-broadcast-schedule.html. Back in the 1990s, student-run simulations like this were being performed regularly across the U.S., primarily in middle schools and high schools. They promoted interdisciplinary STEM education through the motivation of creative applied study, together with fulfillment from teamwork and mission accomplishment, before the acronym was even invented. Over the next decade, however, "teach to test" and the funding shortfall from No Child Left Behind left little time or financial support for these simulations. It's my sincere hope that STS-16 will mark a turnaround in this trend. I'd be interested in your comments about the Russell Space Team and their latest mission, particularly if you can watch some of their YouTube broadcasting. If you advocate space exploration, this is the future. -Dan "That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse." -Walt Whitman --B_3552816143_4432238 Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable STS-16 ATIG Members-

No, this isn't a blast from the past or a reenactment of the STS 51-D missi= on.  It's the return-to-flight for students at Russell Elementary Schoo= l in Smyrna, GA.  Their 28-hour "long sim" begins this Thursd= ay, May 8.  A YouTube broadcast schedule for the simulation and associa= ted links can be accessed at http://russellroadrunners.typepad.com= /space/youtube-broadcast-schedule.html.

Back in the 1990s, student-run simulations like this were being performed r= egularly across the U.S., primarily in middle schools and high schools. &nbs= p;They promoted interdisciplinary STEM education through the motivation of c= reative applied study, together with fulfillment from teamwork and mission a= ccomplishment, before the acronym was even invented.  Over the next dec= ade, however, "teach to test" and the funding shortfall from No Ch= ild Left Behind left little time or financial support for these simulations.=  It's my sincere hope that STS-16 will mark a turnaround in this trend= .

I'd be interested in your comments about the Russell Space Team and their l= atest mission, particularly if you can watch some of their YouTube broadcast= ing.  If you advocate space exploration, this is the future.

-Dan

"That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse."=  -Walt Whitman --B_3552816143_4432238--