KODAK DIGITAL CAMERA ON SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION TO IMAGE THE EARTH FOR KIDSAT PROGRAM.CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 25, 1996--Today's Space Shuttle launch represents the beginning of a new, three-year pilot education program designed to bring the frontiers of space exploration into the classroom via the Internet. Known as KidSat, the program will allow students to pre-program targets for the digital and video cameras on board the Space Shuttle and download images in real-time. The program will allow students to participate in actual space missions from the classroom providing them with a real sense of ownership and excitement in the Space Program. On today's inaugural launch, the core set of KidSat instruments includes a Kodak digital electronic still camera, along with two video cameras, that will be mounted in the overhead window of the Shuttle. Students will be able to operate the cameras remotely from their classrooms, enabling them to capture images from any region of the world. Students will be able to use images in studying current events, the environment, exploration, geography, geology, history, and meteorology meteorology, branch of science that deals with the atmosphere of a planet, particularly that of the earth, the most important application of which is the analysis and prediction of weather. to name a few subjects. "KidSat represents an innovative way for students to be involved in the Nation's Space Exploration Program," said Louise White, business development director in Commercial & Government Systems at Kodak. "We look forward to working with NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. to ensure that all the images obtained during this, and future Space Shuttle missions <onlyinclude> This is a list of missions flown by space shuttles. As of 2006, only the United States has flown human spaceflight shuttle missions, in the Space Shuttle program, while the Soviet Union flew one unmanned flight of the Buran. , are of the highest quality so that students can appreciate learning in such a unique and interesting manner." Three middle schools are participating in the initial phase of the KidSat pilot program: Samuel Gompers Secondary School in San Diego, Calif., Buist Academy in Charleston, S.C., and the Washington Accelerated Learning Center in Pasadena, Calif. JPL (language) JPL - JAM Programming Language. , the University of California, San Diego UCSD is consistently ranked among the top ten public universities for undergraduate education in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.[3] It is a Public Ivy. [1] For graduate studies, most of UCSD's Ph.D. (UCSD UCSD University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, California) UCSD User Centered System Design UCSD Urbana-Champaign Sanitary District (Illinois) UCSD Ultra Cool Sexy Dudes ) and the Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University, mainly at Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5 million. Daniel C. Institute for the Academic Advancement of Youth (IAAY IAAY Institute for the Academic Advancement of Youth (John Hopkins University) ) have formed a partnership to support the student project. Over the next two years, additional classrooms will join the program from the Omaha, Houston, and Baltimore school districts. In addition, countless schools will be downloading images from the Internet. -0- Editor's Note: For additional information about Kodak, visit our web site on the Internet at: http://www.kodak.com/ CONTACT: James Blamphin Eastman Kodak Company Phone: 716/724-5036 Fax: 716/724-0964 or Paul C. Allen Eastman Kodak Company Phone: 716/724-5802 Fax: 716/724-0964 |
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