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Posted by baalke on October 5, 2006, 2:26 pm
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MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109 TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov
Natalie Godwin 818-354-0850
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Cheryl Thompson 760-946-5414 ext. 202
Lewis Center for Educational Research
News Release: 2006-120 October 5, 2006
Student Telescope Program at Goldstone Turns 10
The Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope Program
in California's Mojave Desert celebrates its 10th
anniversary this month. Since its inception in
October 1996, the program has partnered with NASA
and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,
Calif., in creating an educational program for
K-12 students. This premier educational program
has trained 21,000 students at 177 schools in 27
states and 13 countries, and it continues to expand.
An anniversary celebration will be held on Tues.,
Oct. 17, at NASA's Goldstone's Deep Space
Communication Complex. During the celebration, the
telescope will be renamed the Dr. Michael J.
Klein Radio Observatory, in honor of the late JPL
scientist who was instrumental in helping to form
the program.
The program's telescope, Deep Space Station-12, was
once on the list to be decommissioned by NASA. In
the early 1960s, the telescope was used to track
unmanned spacecraft missions such as Voyager,
Viking and Galileo, and Apollo spacecraft
returning from the moon.
The Lewis Center for Educational Research in Apple
Valley operates the telescope as a unique learning
tool for students, with the goal of partnering
students with scientists in real-life, hands-on
activities. Research studies have shown that the
program allows students to feel a sense of
accomplishment that they are collecting relevant
data for NASA and JPL.
Students from around the world connect to the
34-meter (111-foot) telescope via the Internet.
Once they are connected, mission control operators
at the Lewis Center assist them in taking control
of the telescope and collecting data from the
deepest regions of space.
In 2001, students participated in the Cassini
Jupiter Microwave Observing campaign, collecting
data that were helpful in refining the calibrations
of the passive radiometer instrument on the Cassini
spacecraft as it made its way past Jupiter.
Students also observed the landing sites for the
Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity.
For more information about the Lewis Center for
Educational Research on the Internet, visit
www.lewiscenter.org . For more information about
JPL on the Internet, visit www.jpl.nasa.gov .
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