PHOTOS
South Dakota Space Days 2008
"Spaceship Earth: Celebrating 50 Years of Exploration"
October 16-17, 2008 - Watertown, SD
(Hosted by Lake Area Technical Institute at the Watertown Convention Center)

 
Astronaut Mike Fossum speaks to 1,800 middle and high school students over a two-day period at SD Space Days 2008.  Astronaut
Fossum speaks about about his summer 2008 STS-124 mission to the International Space Station to deliver the Japanese "Kibo" (which
means "Hope") Pressurized  Module.

Robotics (Mars Rovers) is one of 16 different hands-on "missions" in which students participated.

Dr. Jack Bacon from NASA's Johnson Space Center also speaks to 1,800 middle and high school students about 
the International Space Station.

Close-up of NASA's Dr. Jack Bacon.

NASA Aerospace Education Specialist Angelo Casaburri leads "One Small Click for Mankind" mission.

Tom Durkin, SD Space Grant Consortium Deputy Director, gives "Mars Mania" presentation.

SDSU Professor Mary O'Neill prepares a class for a Global Positioning Satellite mission.

Aviation Maintenance Technology Instructor Greg Klein leads students in "Gilligan's Island Meets the Space Age" mission,
where students learn about electrical generation.

NASA's large Exploration Exhibit Trailer

Students build a virtual lunar base in NASA's Exploration Exhibit Trailer

Touching an actual lunar rock sample brought back from an Apollo mission to the Moon.

Astronaut Fossum gives interview to local news station.

Dr. Ray Wheeler, plant physiologist at NASA Kennedy Space Center, gives overview of research into the use of
plants for life support in space.

Astronaut Mike Fossum presents SD Space Grant Consortium Director Dr. Ed Duke (right) and Deputy Director
Tom Durkin (center) with a beautiful montage from his STS-124 summer 2008 mission to the International Space Station. 
The caption reads "This South Dakota flag and crew patch were flown aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery to
deliver the Japanese 'Kibo' Pressurized Module to the International Space Station, STS-124/1J, May 31 -
June 14, 2008, traveling 5,661,398 statute miles in 216 orbits around the Earth."

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