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Three
added to CFC weekly incentive prize drawing winners
Congratulations to Gus
Venegas, winner of two Maximum Access Passes to the KSC Visitor
Center; Doug Newsome, winner of a $75 gift certificate
to the NASA Exchange, and Cheryl McPhillips, winner of
two tickets to the Disability Awareness Action Working Group annual
luncheon.
You can make your contribution on-line at http://cfc.ksc.nasa.gov
Click on “Inside KSC,” then “CFC Donation Form.”
Make your selections; print out your receipt, and get it to your
Unit Coordinator/Key Solicitor right away and be entered into
this week’s drawing for a $50 gift certificate to the NASA
Exchange, or two Maximum Access Passes to the KSC Visitor Center.
Your “Donations DO Make A Difference!”
Shuttle
Safety
The most powerful
Space Shuttle Reusable Solid Rocket Motor ever tested is scheduled
for a ground test at a Promontory, Utah, test facility Thursday,
Oct. 23. The
static – or stationary – test of the engineering motor
will generate more than 3.6 million pounds of thrust, pushing the
five-segment motor to its boundaries to gauge its capabilities.
The test, part of the Shuttle’s ongoing safety program, will
run for 128 seconds, five seconds longer than the motors would operate
during launch. The Space Shuttle launches with a four-segment motor
with the maximum thrust of 3.3 million pounds.
An engineering test motor simulates many conditions experienced
in flight and offers engineers the opportunity to better assess
the strength of the current design, to spot potential flaws in the
design, to verify new materials and to certify manufacturing processes.
The Reusable Solid Rocket Motor Project Office at NASA’s Marshall
Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and ATK Thiokol Pro-pulsion,
an Alliant Techsystems Inc., company in Promontory, Utah, are jointly
conducting the test.
Mark your calendars!
April 20-22, 2004, are the dates for the Environmental & Energy
Awareness Week in celebration of Earth Day! If you would like
to participate in next year’s event, you will need to register
online at http://eeaw.ksc.nasa.gov/register.cfm/
. Next planning meeting is scheduled for Nov. 14, at 1 p.m., in
the O&C Building/Room 1055.
If you have any problems with the registration, please call Barbara
Naylor at 867-8452 or e-mail Barbara.A.Naylor@nasa.gov.
Deadline for registration is Jan. 31, 2004.
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You can help shape the future: Sign up to be a mentor
– The NASA Center for Distance Learning in cooperation
with Christopher Newport University and Institute of Electrical
and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) announce the VINNY™
award. Named in honor of Leonard Da Vinci, the award is
designed to help heighten and increase awareness of science,
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). VINNY is
a global video competition. Teams made up of one teacher
and three students will identify and research a global problem
and discover ways that STEM can help solve it. Teams will
combine skills in research, writing and creativity. Be a
mentor and share the wealth of your experience with young
learners. You can mentor your team online. The final product
to be submitted for judging is a one-minute video explaining
the global problem and a possible STEM solution.
• grade levels: elementary grades 3-5, middle grades
6-8, and high grades 9-12
• two languages: English and Spanish
• winning one-minute videos will be exhibited on the
NASA’s Kids Science News Network™ (NASA’s
KSNN™) web site (http://ksnn.larc.nasa.gov)
Please register to be a mentor by Oct. 31. Register online
at http://vinny.pcs.cnu.edu.
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