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>NFB/NASA Rocket Launch to be Web Cast
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>During the week of August 15-21, 2004, the National Federation of the Blind
>(NFB) in partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
>(NASA) will host the first ever Rocket On Science Camp for blind youth.
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>During the week, NASA engineers and blind instructors from the NFB will
>present workshops at the NFB Jernigan Institute on the
>history of rocketry, basic rocket physics, and basic electronics. In
>addition, the students will learn basic rocket trajectory planning, build
>electronic circuits for the sensors they will fly, and practice pad
>operations for the rocket they will launch August 19 from NASA's Wallops
>Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va.
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>Reporting for duty at 5 a.m., August 19, the students will begin the
>countdown procedures towards a 7 a.m. EDT launch of the 10 and a half foot
>rocket. The launch window is 7 a.m. to 9 a.m.
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>Video and audio of the launch will be web cast live on the internet
>beginning at 6:15 a.m. EDT, on August 19, at:
>http://www.wff.nasa.gov/webcast
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>This historic moment for blind youth in science will help all of us imagine
>a future full of opportunities through the NFB Jernigan Institute and The
>NASA vision for space exploration.
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