privon.com | weblog » Family Science Night http://privon.com/blog Traveling, Cycling, Climbing, Photography, and Astronomy. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:53:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 NASA Goddard Family Science Overnight http://privon.com/blog/astronomy/nasa-goddard-family-science-overnight/ http://privon.com/blog/astronomy/nasa-goddard-family-science-overnight/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:15:53 +0000 George Privon http://privon.com/blog/?p=126
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    • ]]>     Late last night I returned from Washington, DC. I was up there for the weekend to help out with a Family Science Overnight that was happening at the visitor’s center. It was quite a lot of fun. I got up there Friday afternoon and took a tour of some of the facilities. I got to see the clean room for the Solar Dynamics Observatory, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, as well as the clean room for the Hubble Space Telescope. The HST clean room had the instruments which will be going up on the 4th servicing mission later this year. There were several engineers in the clean room working on the instruments.

    On Saturday, we went to the visitor’s center and set up for the overnight. The focus of the 24 hour event was rocketry and scientific methods. The families built and launched a variety of rockets, ranging from water powered ones through estes model rockets. I was in charge of the “star party” which would take place after it’d gotten dark. Sadly, it was quite cloudy and we were unable to see many stars. My other job was as photographer, and I took several hundred pictures over the course of the event. Once I’ve edited them, I’ll put a few up here and give a better description of the event.

    Goddard’s website has more information on the Family Science Night Program.

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