The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Desert Research and Technology Studies (Desert RATS) is a multi-year series of tests of hardware and operations carried out annually in the high desert of Arizona, as an analog to future exploration activities beyond low Earth orbit [1]. For the past several years, these tests have occurred in the San Francisco Volcanic Field, north of Flagstaff. For the 2011 Desert RATS season, the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) at NASA headquarters provided support to develop an education pilot project that would include student activities to parallel the Desert RATS mission planning and exploration activities in the classroom, and educator training sessions. The development of the pilot project was a joint effort between the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Directorate and the Aerospace Education Services Project (AESP), managed at Penn State University.


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    Title :

    NASA Desert RATS 2011 Education Pilot Project and Classroom Activities


    Contributors:
    Gruener, J. E. (author) / McGlone, M. (author) / Allen, J. (author) / Tobola, K. (author) / Graff, P. (author)

    Conference:

    43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ; 2012 ; The Woodlands, TX, United States


    Publication date :

    2012-03-19


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English