Greetings Barrett,
We started our day at 7:00 am at Ellington Field. We entered the hangar with the C-9 "Weightless Wonder" right in front of our eyes. Tables were set up for each team to prepare for the Test Readiness Review. We started by emptying all of our bags and organizing our equipment into 3 categories: items that would be stowed on the plane, items that needed to be mounted on the plane and items that would be used during the experiments. We rehearsed for the presentation of the equipment. The review board started at our end of the tables and we were the second team to present. Fortunately we passed the review and our equipment was scooped up and weighed. It was a whopping 10 pounds!!!! However, we will have an assigned flight director to assist us in doing the experiments. They are concerned with all the movement of bodies and objects, not to mention we might be more prone for a "kill". (That means having to vomit during the flight.) Loading was a challenge because it is a very tight space and there are now 6 research groups instead of 5 and 10 extra parabolas for a total of 42! We learned about the STS-118 Educator Astronaut flight with Barbara R. Morgan set to blast off in late June. We had a group photo with all the teams in front of the plane. We ended the day with a briefing on anti-nausea strategies and were issued our flight suits. Tomorrow the first flyers, Andrea Donovan and Sally Nash, will board the plane at 9:00 Central Standard Time. (That's 10:00 Barrett time.)
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Dear Barrett Team:
We are so proud of you!~!!! Each class was able to sign on and read the BLOG to their students! Parents are reading the BLOG from their homes or workplaces!! We feel like we are there!! Thank you so much for keeping us in the "loop"! Good luck to all of you!!! We hope you don't become ill! We love NASA and we are wanting to follow in your footsteps someday!!!!
Love your Barrett Family,
Especially your Project Discovery Lab Family (Carrie and Laurie)
Today in the lab we see:
Ms. Morales Class
Ms. Steenson's Class
Ms. Nagle's Class
Ms. Chapman's Class and we have a special visitor observing--Ms. Jen Powell!
Yesterday we had a George Mason Masters in Education intern and she thought what is going on here and in Houston is just GREAT!!!!
Hello. It's Jessie from Ms. Morales' class. We love the photos. Hope everything is going okay. Hope you have fun and you make it back safely.
P.S. Hi, Barrett Team. We are so very proud of you. You look "marvelous" in the photos.
Mona
hi it's jessie from barrett we all hope you guys have fun and make it back safly.
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