REGISTER online for all Videoconferences: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/registration.htm
Target audience: students in grades 5 - 12
Times: 9:00 - 9:45 and 10:00 - 10:45 AM (CENTRAL time zone)
Format: 45-minutes formatted into 30-minute presentation, and then
15-20 minute Q & A
Cost: $75 per site
Questions: Chandra Allison, at (615) 322-6511 or email chandra.allison@vanderbilt.edu
THURSDAY, March 18, 2010 - Mission to Mars
Presenter: Rick Chappell
Ignite and renew an interest in your students becoming astronauts!
Come and be part of this exciting videoconference as we discuss the challenges and realities of a manned mission to Mars with former NASA astronaut and Vanderbilt professor, Dr. Rick Chappell.
A manned mission to Mars will take 9 months to get to Mars, and there is only one launch window every 26 months. All in all, a trip to Mars would take about 21 months: 9 months to get there, 3 months on Mars, and 9 months to get back.
NASA has a long road ahead to develop feasible and affordable approaches for human missions to Mars and beyond. The greatest challenge for a Mars missions is getting there and back because of the huge masses of propellants needed for both legs of the space mission. Food, water, oxygen, and radiation protection are other essential life-support considerations.
Patsy
Patsy Partin, M.Ed
Director, Virtual School
Vanderbilt University
2007 Terrace Place
Nashville, TN 37203
(615) 322-6384
www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool