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• https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnMXUQzVHNAwSjhpSvXu7OM5Eq40K4Zny4 commented on Bolden Talks About Education
  Actually, most of the NASA educational publication (EP) series of documents date from the Apollo era or thereabouts. As far as I can tell, that series of documents is over & done, which is sad. NASA produced educational films, too....

• Mike Hilton commented on Bolden Talks About Education
  Thanks Eagle Eye.. I won't use this post to rehash my previous postings but will say that I was inspired to become an engineer because of the goal of going to the moon, not some NASA outreach, or education program. That one goal inspired a whole generation to study math and science and in the absence of another grand goal the same scientists and engineers have gone on to more mundane chores such as keeping the lights on, building infrastructure, and solving problems here on earth. If you ask me, the cost of the dream in 1963 was a mere...

• GK commented on Bolden Talks About Education
  NASA has had Spacemobile lecturers, professional educators who would travel around to schools and museums to put on demonstrations and talks, for about 45 years. In the 1960s NASA sponsored development of an entire series of special publications on Space Mathematics, Space Chemistry, Space Biology, etc, all geared to the secondary grades. The first contract that NASA signed for Apollo hardware was with a school, MIT, for the Apollo guidance and navigation system. They supported throughout the program. NASA had grants to colleges and universities across the country for research associated with its missions. Now NASA gives some money out...

• A_M_Swallow commented on Bolden Talks About Education
  Starting in 2 or 3 years time 6000 kg of student and researcher experiments could be delivered to the ISS for $134 million using a Falcon 9 and Dragon. The DragonLab can fly to orbit and return to Earth 3000 kg of experiments. The Taurus II can probably do something similar....

• jagosaur commented on Bolden Talks About Education
  I worked in the NASA education program for almost eight years at both a center and HQ. The biggest problem I saw was a growing trend toward pedagogy rather than content, and NASA has always had some of the best content out there, so I have never understood why they feel the need to duplicate what the US Department of Education is already doing pretty badly. In fact, I was on a cooperative agreement (TFSP) associated with the Spacemobile contract (AESP) mentioned above, and the Spacemobiler's role was changing during those years from one of spreading dazzling content to rapt...