SPACE BENEFITS
The students at UCSD are gaining
experience as real-time flight
controllers while working on the
Sally Ride EarthKAM. This
experience is inspiring the next
generation of flight controllers for
space programs.
RESULTS
Approximately 2,800 schools with
190 ,000 middle school students and
3 ,000 teachers in the United States
and 48 other countries have
participated in the Sally Ride
EarthKAM. A total of 150
undergraduate students from the
University of California at San Diego
(UCSD), San Diego, California, also
have participated in integrating and operating the experiment. No other NASA program gives
students such direct control of an instrument flying on a spacecraft orbiting Earth, and as a
result, students assume an unparalleled personal ownership in the study and analysis of their
Earth photography.
PUBLICATION(S)
Hurwicz M. Case Study: Attack of the space data – Down to Earth data management at ISS
EarthKAM. New Architect. 2002;38.
This investigation is ongoing and additional results are pending publication.
Third graders from Sacaton, Arizona tracking the ISS for their Sally Ride
EarthKam project.