Space Sciences Laboratory Hosts Bill Nye, The Science Guy
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Space Sciences Laboratory Hosts Bill Nye, the Science Guy
October 16, 1996
This week, the Marshall Space Flight Center and the Space Sciences
Laboratory are hosting Bill Nye, The
Science Guy, as their crew from Seattle films for an upcoming episode
of the PBS television series. Taping in SSL will occur on Wednesday, October
16 and Thursday, October 17.
Areas of science from the laboratory that will be featured on an upcoming episode of Bill Nye include Aerogel, "cool telescopes" such as BATSE and the AXAF Calibration Facility, the SSL Solar Vector Magnetograph, and the 105-meter drop tube for microgravity experimentation.
The program will also feature a dive in the Marshall Neutral Buoyancy
Simulator, the large tank in which the Hubble Space Telescope repair missions
are rehearsed by astronauts, as well as a visit to the Space Station Assembly
facility.
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Author: John
Horack
Curator: Bryan Walls
NASA Official: John M. Horack