Selling NASA: Skylab Student Experiment Project (1971-1974) Y. H. Phoebe Tang M. Phil Candidate, Department of History The University of Hong Kong Email:

Slides:

Advertisements

Similar presentations

Objectives Evaluate Kennedy’s domestic policies.

Advertisements

21 st CENTURY COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERS 2008 BIDDER’S Workshops.

Current Issue Project AP Courses at Mounds View. The Problem Mounds View doesn’t offer enough AP classes to satisfy every students’ interests Mounds View.

Project Management Process. Project Complexity means that: a team of people are needed to supply expertise the work needs to be broken into manageable.

@dev_progress. TOWARDS BETTER EDUCATION QUALITY Indonesia’s promising path Joseph Wales

Ahmet Hoke MD, PhD Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

By: Desirae Rodriquez Kevin Ellis Dasia Sanchez Dylan Hall Genesis Fernandez.

AIM: How did the competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union affect the rest of the World?. Superpowers : Term given to the United States and the Soviet.

Administrators Workshop – October 26, 2005 Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies (CICS) Everything You Always Wanted to Know but were Always Afraid.

The Technical Community Understanding the Procurement Cycle LaShawn Davis Professional Intern Program Level II Presentation.

Aerospace Engineering BY JOE SOMERVILLE. Description  Primary branch of engineering concerned with research, design, development, construction, testing,

It is a center for space flight training Research Flight What is the Space Center for?

 Interview people to gather information  Collect evidence to present in court  Find facts and analyze information about legal, financial, and personal.

History of Spaceflight © 2011 Project Lead The Way, Inc.Flight and Space.

Manned Mission to Mars : Wright On! Table of Contents: Introduction Task Process Resources Evaluation Conclusion.

Space Race USA vs. USSR.

The University of Texas at Arlington Office of Research and Office of Accounting and Business Services Brown Bag Training Session V: The Federal Demonstration.

Space An Introduction. Space Exploration  Space Exploration: is the use of astronomy and space technology to explore outer space.astronomyspace technologyouter.

Question: Should the government continue to spend money on NASA and space exploration? Big Idea: Our knowledge of the universe is always expanding and.

Deutsch III Dealing With the Legacy of the Third Reich Ma ny people were executed for their heinous roles during the 3rd Reich; however, some and their.

A Perspective on the NASA Space Power and Energy Storage Roadmap National Research Council Panel Power Workshop March 21, 2011 H. Sterling Bailey, Ph.

A project of the President’s Emerging Leaders Program in collaboration with the Administrative Services Task Force.

QOD 5/6 Why do you think President Kennedy called his domestic program the “New Frontier”?

4.05 Program Evaluation Template Replace the information in this template with your own information. Include pictures and other visuals.

Chapter IV Science and Technology. I. Federal Government’s Policy and Support 1.Federal investment in science and technology has played a critical role.

DO NOW Answer the following question in bullet/outline format: What are humanity’s needs? Translate the curriculum unit question into its simplest form.

Map Overlay 1Map Overlay 1 Map Overlay 2Map Overlay 2.

Kennedy’s Domestic Policy Terms and People New Frontier − President Kennedy’s proposals to resolve economic, educational, health care, and civil.

TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Kennedy’s Domestic Policy.

Unit 8: Text A Space Politics 21st Century College English: Book 3 : Translation.

Национальная процедура одобрения и регистрации проектов (программ) международной технической помощи (исключая представление информации об организации и.

1 NASA In Transition Presented to the Aerospace Control and Guidance Systems Committee Meeting No. 96 Harbour Town Resort Hilton Head, SC October 19, 2005.

West Central Community School District Performance Document: Formative Evaluation Tool By John Johnson ortheast Iowa Charter School Northeast Charter School.

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SCARBOROUGH 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, Ontario M1C 1A4 CAMPUS DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT (CDD) COMMITTEE.

The Cold War and the Space Race  At the conclusion of World War 2 both the United States and Russia set themselves up to be super powers  This rivalry.

(Write five complete sentences)

Copyright © 2015 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

IWCS STEM UPDATE FALL INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH Preliminary plan from coordinators – includes professional development and training for STEM teachers.

Social Studies The Station of Nations. Social Studies The Station of Nations Learn about: The history of space stations. Who is involved in the International.

SPACE EXPLORATION By: Trevor Spanyers. YES  We now have to pay 63 million dollars per person to get to space with Russia that s a 4 th of NASAs old budget.

STEM Fair Information Night September 15, 2011 Agenda What is a STEM Fair? What does a STEM Fair Project look like? Where do I Get Ideas? Allowable Topics.

The Third Sector in Hong Kong: Prospects and Opportunities By Professor Nelson Chow Department of Social Work & Social Administration The University of.

Who Should Help the President? © 2012, TESCCC U.S. Government, Unit: 05 Lesson: 03.

Eisenhower in the White House How do new ideas change the way people live?

Why Explore Space?. Chapter 5, Lesson 1 Warm Up Questions CPS Questions (1-2)

Kennedy’s Domestic Policy

Megan Haddad Emily Lepas Sarah Pramono Kellie Hall Cassandra Quijada

Instructional Leadership for a Professional Learning Culture:

Space: The Final Frontier: A New Era of Economic Growth and Discovery in the United States. Seth Westbury.

Ever Dream of the impossible?

Notes Science SPI 0807.T/E.2 Eng Design Process

Grant Writing Information Session

The Kennedy Administration

Kennedy’s Domestic Policy

Due Today! Cuban Missile Crisis: Reading Like a Historian

until the start of the webinar.

The method scientists use to find answers to questions

Notes Science SPI 0807.T/E.2 Eng Design Process

Objectives Evaluate Kennedy’s domestic policies.

Funding for State-level Activities under the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 June 27, 2018 Good morning This presentation is in response to.

Kennedy’s Domestic Policy

MANA 4328 Dennis C. Veit Offer and Orientation MANA 4328 Dennis C. Veit 1.

Eisenhower and the Cold War

Poster Title: Background and Introduction Methods and Results

CAMPUS DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT (CDD) COMMITTEE

Board of Education Meeting May 15, 2018

Kennedys New Frontier Section 2.

Visions and Voyages: The Planetary Decadal Survey

GSFC Solar System Exploration Division

Presentation transcript:

Selling NASA: Skylab Student Experiment Project ( ) Y. H. Phoebe Tang M. Phil Candidate, Department of History The University of Hong Kong

Picture taken at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Poster from NASA Headquarters Historical Reference Collection

- Over 87,000 students received project kits out of 3409 proposals selected - 25 national winners The Competition

I.Background of Skylab Student Experiment Project II.NASA answering to public concerns and boosting public interest III.Evaluating the Skylab Student Experiment Project

I. Background of the Skylab Student Experiment Project

Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan 1973

NASA appropriations YearPercentage of national budget % % % % % % % %

Over 60 percent students viewed space program as correlated with US’ military race against Soviet Union - Space program to keep US as number one superpower - Appropriations to be spent on social problems Late 1960s and early 1970s - Enrollment in science classes dropped Students’ views towards space and science

II. NASA answering to public concerns and boosting public interest

“...an unparalleled opportunity for direct public involvement in the values and benefits of the space program...” - Dale D. Myers, Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, 1971

Students’ Involvement - NASA advisor or a Principal Investigator - 5-day Preliminary Design Review - 2-day Critical Design Review

Booklet from NASA Headquarters Historical Reference Collection

III. Evaluating the Skylab Student Experiment Project

“...renew interest in NASA and its activities...” - Lee Summerlin, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Science Education “...an enriching and lasting experience...” “...a feeling for the meaning of being a scientist.” - Jeanne Leventhal, student investigator

Houston Chronicle, 21 July 1972

Washington Star-News, 27 July 1973

1974 Polls - Decreased spending in space - Space exploration not in spending priorities - Job training and pollution control

Conclusion

Y. H. Phoebe Tang M. Phil Candidate, Department of History The University of Hong Kong Selling NASA: Skylab Student Experiment Project ( )