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This episode features stories on an innovative surf park in the North Wales countryside and an invention aimed at stopping police chases. Host Mo Rocca also highlights the history of flight starting with the Wright Brothers and finishing with the modern technologies of space. Part of "The Henry Ford Innovation Nation With Mo Rocca" series.
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Rosalind Cylar serves as an attorney and advisor in the Office of Chief Counsel at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. She participates in a variety of legal activities designed to assure adequacy and propriety in the Marshall Center’s activities and documentation. In providing this service, she is protecting legal and financial rights of the government and parties affected by NASA activities. Part of the "Women@NASA" series.
Mary Elizabeth Wusk started her work at NASA as a summer intern. She began working in aircraft instrumentation and continued developing her career by conducting research on aircraft. With her background in physics and electrical engineering, she has supported and led teams that delivered ground and flight hardware systems. Mary Beth now uses her technology development background in NASA’s Game Changing Development Program Office. Part of the "Women@NASA" series.
What does it take to get a sailboat moving in the water? With the help of some of the Bay Area’s top aerospace engineers, students learn that sailboats don’t simply rely on wind to push them forward but that there are other invisible forces that are fundamental to the process. In fact, the physical elements that make a sailboat sail are the same ones that make an airplane fly.
Even in a sport like speed-skydiving, there are those for whom terminal velocity is just not fast enough. Join Wild Chronicles as one thrill-seeker takes to the skies to learn how to satisfy his need for speed from a bird whose top speed of 300 mph puts humans to shame - the peregrine falcon. Segment of vide from Wild Chronicles Series.
Second in the series of three productions designed to let students learn by doing, guiding them through the science and history behind the Wright Brothers' invention of powered flight. This second component contains segments that provide science background (Four Forces of Flight, Newton's Laws, and others) to help students understand aviation concepts. Additional segments show the teacher how to conduct activities (building models or demonstrations) and acquire materials to be used in these activities.
Today, Maria Revlett is a launch services program information manager. In this position, she manages a small team of contractors and is responsible for all aspects of information and configuration management, documentation, and process improvement. Her leadership potential was recognized when she was selected for the NASA Mid-Level Leadership Program in 2012 and completed an eight-month detail supporting the Kennedy Space Center Deputy Director and Associate Director. Part of the "Women@NASA" series.
With support from the National Science Foundation, some Brown University scientists are doing extensive research on bats, studying everything from their agility in flight to the elasticity of their bodies. Researching a bat's evolution, its structure and biomechanics in flight will help scientists better understand evolution and could lead to the development of aerodynamic materials for more lightweight, agile aircraft.
Tuesday Dodson currently serves as a customer engagement manager in the Headquarters Information Technology and Communications Division. In this role, she provides IT customer service for the Headquarters end-user community. She started her career as a temporary secretary before becoming a permanent employee after only eight months. After some time, the role evolved into a program analyst position where she was responsible for providing demographic information about NASA’s civil service workforce. Part of the "Women@NASA" series.
Dr. Margaret Nazario began her journey into engineering when she was a senior in high school taking physics. While her love of inventing and problem-solving provided an architectural roadmap for her future, it was the encouragement and guidance of the teachers who recognized her special talents that put her life on a trajectory that would land her at NASA. Dr. Nazario currently works on developing new technologies for future human-based mars missions. Part of the "Women@NASA" series.
The Magic School Bus is an award winning animated children’s television series based on the book series of the same title by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen. It is notable for its use of celebrity talent and being both highly entertaining and educational. The class learns how things fly from inside Tim's model airplane. The class discovers how airplane wings and moving air affect lift and flight.
Explains how raptors (birds of prey) fly and hunt, comparing their abilities to those of high-tech fighter aircraft. The peregrine falcon, for example, surpasses even the F-22 Raptor aircraft in its speed, agility, and accuracy on target. Also studies eagles, kestrels, owls, vultures, falcons, and hawks. Focuses on the tactics of raptors hunts from hawks, taking advantage of bats' nighttime flights to hawks' teamwork in capturing their prey.
Humans have always been intrigued by the idea of flight. Experiments with Hot Air Balloons led to a pig and duck being the first air travel passengers. From there, the Wright Brothers created the first airplane, and aviation was off to the races. From the jet engine and military aircraft to passenger planes, worldwide travel is now a matter of hours rather than days or weeks.
First in the series of three productions designed to let students learn by doing, guiding them through the science and history behind the Wright Brothers' invention of powered flight. This first component contains six ten-minute segments that explore (1) humankind's historical preoccupation with the idea of flight and the life and times of the Wright Brothers; (2) the science concepts of control, lift, and propulsion; and (3) evolution of the science of flight since the Wright Brothers.
Kate McMurtry is the branch chief of operations engineering at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center. Selected as chief in 2014, McMurtry is responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating the technical and administrative functions for the branch. Prior to her current position, McMurtry acted as the branch chief and deputy branch chief for two years. McMurtry started her career in 2004 as a U.S. Air Force officer working in developmental engineering at Edwards Air Force Base, California, for the Airborne Laser Program. Part of the "Women@NASA" series.
Mai Lee Chang did not envision becoming a NASA engineer. At the age of six, her family settled in the U.S. as refugees of the Vietnam War. During her senior year in high school, her physics teacher suggested that she look into engineering as a potential college major. Mai Lee is an engineer at the Johnson Space Center within the Human Systems Engineering and Development Division. She started her career at NASA as a co-op student. Part of the "Women@NASA" series.
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Georgia Tech biochemist Nicholas Hud and a team at the Center for Chemical Evolution (CCE) are working to chip away at how life on earth began. They are homing in on how chain-like chemicals called polymers first came together and evolved three-and-a-half to four billion years ago. Part of the National Science Foundation Series “Science Nation.”
What is the future of human presence in space? How might things be different if there had not been a Cold War and a Space Race? What does humanity gain by venturing into the solar system? Three events are key moments in the conquest of space: the R-7 rocket launches the first satellite into space, President Kennedy's speech announces the United States race to the moon, and Neil Armstrong walks on the moon. Part of the "Butterfly Effect" series.
For Misty Davies, it was all about making the world a better place. She grew up wanting to be a veterinarian, a writer, a mother, and a scientist. True to her childhood ambitions to be many things when she grew up, Dr. Davies’ path to NASA came only after holding positions as a Shakespearean actress, a waitress, and a veterinary technician. Along the way, she studied how albatrosses fly across the ocean without flapping their wings and why rubber is so stretchy. She is also a mother and learns something new from her two children every day. Part of the "Women@NASA" series.
Vickie Gutierrez began working at NASA in 2002, but her first step toward her career began as she watched Neil Armstrong take his first step on the moon. Gutierrez's interest continued to grow as she experienced her own thrill of a countdown and launch of a rocket she built for a fifth grade class demonstration. After taking a career assessment test in middle school, Gutierrez found that aerospace engineering was among her top choices. It was then that she began to put a name to her future; she wanted to work at NASA. Part of the "Women@NASA" series.
