The Search for Extra-Solar Planets
Habitable Planets
Spectroscopy: Determining a Star's Type Habitable Zone: Determining a Planet's Distance from its Star

Drawing on the interactive activities of Astro Venture in which students in grades 5-8 role play NASA occupations as they search for and build a planet that would be habitable to humans. This event will look at the need for liquid water and how star type and the planet's orbital distance are two interrelated requirements for the presence of water. The event will also look at methods that scientists use to determine a star's type and the orbital distance of a planet orbiting a star.

Astrophysicist Yvonne Pendelton and NASA Project Scientist Michael Kaufman will be on hand to answer your questions.
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
A Live Virtual Tour of the International Space Station from Johnson Space Center.

You are invited to join our tour guide for a live tour of the International Space Station mockup and training facility. Ask your questions during the tour and have them answered during the event.
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April 8-12

NASA Why? Files
The Case of the Inhabitable Habitat

Students are invited to actively join the tree house detectives as they investigate the devastating changes that have occurred in the local fishing industry. The fish have disappeared! In solving this case, the tree house detectives learn about various habitats on land, in the water, and even in space. They learn about the animals that depend on these habitats and how changes created by both man and nature affect their existence. The tree house detectives determine that habits can have a big impact on habitats.

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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
International Science Research follow-up chat

Do you have questions about how will plants continue to grow in space? Yuliy Berkovich will be happy to talk about his research at KSC in new root delivery systems for the future space greenhouses. Also ask him how his research is coming along in Russia.

The Search for Extra-Solar Planets
Doppler Shift: Giant Planets Detected from Beyond our Solar System:

Drawing on the interactive activities of Astro Venture in which students in grades 5-8 role play NASA occupations as they search for and build a planet that would be habitable to humans, this event shows how Doppler Shift has been used to detect large extra-solar planets and how photometry is being proposed for detecting Earth-size planets.

Research Scientist Ed Prather and Dawn McIntosh will be on hand to answer your questions.
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
International Science Research follow-up chat

Do you have questions about Forest Ecology at the Kennedy Space Center? Sabina Dore will be happy to explain why it was important to measure the levels of carbon dioxide and water in her plant studies.

ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Ecology Overview

Our guest experts are two wildlife biologists that work at the Kennedy Space Center. Mike Legare, who is a certified wildlife biologist, will discuss his role in monitoring the 30 thousand acres of wetlands and estuaries surrounding the Center. Doug Scheidt, a lead for the Aquatics Program, will explain his role in monitoring the estuaries that surround the Center.
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ISS - A Home in Microgravity:
Ecology Overview follow-up chat

Do you have questions about how NASA protects the endangered species around the Center? Mike Legare will be happy to explain why overdevelopment can cause damage to KSC'S sensitive ecosystem.

Take Our Daughters To Work Day:
Centennial of Flight
Webcast with Gloria Yamauchi and Kurt Long.

Do researchers get to play with model planes? Well, sort of! Hear Gloria tell about her recent wind tunnel test of model tiltrotors landing on a naval destroyer and Kurt's study of the aerodynamics of ships!

Take Our Daughters To Work Day:
Centennial of Flight
Women's role in the history of flight

A full day of chats and webcasts from different centers with women who have a role in aerospace and/or can speak to women's role in the history of flight.
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Take Our Daughters To Work Day/Centennial of Flight:
Day Long Forum

Moderated by the Young Women of NASA Advisory Council, a full day forum featuring

Take Our Daughters To Work Day:
Centennial of Flight
Interactive webcast on JETS!

Join one of the few female corporate jet pilots and jet pilot instructors as she discusses this new field for women. Her enthusiasm for flying, travel, and making your career exciting will ignite your students thinking about future career paths in the aeronautical sciences.

Take Our Daughters To Work Day:
Centennial of Flight
Interactive Webchat with Amelia!

Did you know that in a recent survey over 65% of American women chose Amelia Earhart as the one women they admired most? Don't miss this unique opportunity to chat with aviation historian and author, Carol Osborne, who coauthored a book with Amelia's sister.

Take Our Daughters To Work Day:
Centennial of Flight
Webcast Panel Discussion featuring Cecilia Aragon, aerobatic champion pilot, Wendy Holforty, NASA Aerospace Engineer and Civil Air Patrol pilot, and Mitzi Saylor, B-737 Captain

Take Our Daughters To Work Day:
Centennial of Flight
Bi-lingual Webchat with Fanny Zuniga

Fanny Zuniga who works in NASA Ames Virtual Motion Simulator where all NASA astronauts and pilots come to train. During this unique bilingual opportunity, questions asked in English will be answered in English and questions asked in Spanish will be answered in Spanish.

Take Our Daughters To Work Day:
Centennial of Flight
Astronaut Video Contest

Only here on NASA Quest, view 3 video interviews with NASA astronauts:

The winner is: Erol from Sunnyvale
For more information on this contest

Take Our Daughters To Work Day:
Centennial of Flight
Chat on Autogenic Feedback Training Exercise and Telemedicine

Dr. Pat Cowings is a research psychologist and studies how people adapt to space and tries to develop methods to help them adapt faster. Her extensive work in Human Factors and Biofeedback has made her an expert resource on using various techniques to overcome motion sickness.

Take Our Daughters To Work Day:
Centennial of Flight
Leisure flying / flying for fun

Join Lorna, a private pilot who flies for pleasure, the fun and freedom of flying; as well as the mental stimulation of learning and perfecting new flying skills. She will show you how to prepare a flight plan. Live in flight video will be used to demonstrate the essentials for a safe and successful route.

Take Our Daughters To Work Day:
Centennial of Flight
Contest winner announced

The answers and winners of our Aero Trivia Hunt and Astronaut Video Contest will be announced here.

Global Science and Technology Week
Chat with Lonnie Moffitt

Lonnie Moffitt has had a long-term "love-affair" with the Space Program and has worked directly for astronauts as they made rotations through technical jobs between flight assignments. His area of focus was all the systems on the orbiter as he worked on improving the aging fleet of orbiters.

Take Our Daughters To Work Day 2001:

Dr. Alan Pope, a behavioral researcher at NASA Langley, inventor of biofeedback technologies that aid people with Diabetes and Attention Deficit Disorder. View Archive

Marianne Steele, project scientist who works with investigators engaged in research on the shuttle and the International Space Station. View Archive

Webcast focusing on NASA's research on Juvenile Diabetes featuring: Karen Gundy Burlet, a NASA expert on Space Biology, Aerodynamics, and Mechanical Engineering, who has had diabetes for ten years, and nine year old Mary, who also suffers from Type I diabetes. View Archive