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Braille Monitor

November

2004

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Steven

Max Faults digs for fossils at the Maryland Science Center. In the background

is Bryce Gitzen.

Circle

of Life campers tour Goddard Space Flight Center. Left to right: Bryce

Gitzen (back), Andrew Wai, and Paul Howard.

The

Rocket On! science campers actually launched a rocket with the guidance

of NASA volunteers. Here the NFB/NASA rocket sits waiting to be transported

to the launch pad. The rocket was about ten-and-a-half feet tall and weighed

about seventy-five pounds.

During two weeks last summer,

one in July and one in August, the National Federation of the Blind Science

Academy conducted science camps for a total of twenty-four middle and high school

students. From all indications they were life-changing events for the students.

Read the first two articles in this issue for a full report.

The NFB/NASA

rocket lifted off at 8:33 a.m. on August 19, 2004, with a full-color Whozit

decal affixed to its outer skin. Whozit soared to a height of 4,902 feet, and

all the experiments worked flawlessly. Unfortunately one of the rocket's parachutes

did not open as planned, so the rocket broke apart when it hit the water. Everything

was recovered except the payload section of the rocket. The recovered sections

will be put on display at the NFB Jernigan Institute along with a model of the

original rocket

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