Posted Thursday, December 4, 2008
Featured on Episode 11 of the 2008-2009 season
The space shuttle retires in 2010. A new rocket, Ares I, is part of the new generation of space travel. It has new technology allowing the astronauts' capsule to eject from the rocket in an emergency. Engineers hope that they will never have to use it, but plan to have a proper safety mechanism in place just in case. The mechanism is a motor connected to the capsule known as Orion. In case of emergency, the motor will pull Orion away from the rocket it’s riding on if there is a malfunction during liftoff or on the launch pad. The rocket motor had its first ground test at the ATK Launch Facility in Promontory, Utah recently.
NASA Ares Education pages
NASA Ares and Orion Mission pages
Picture of rocket components
Students will learn in our activities how a rocket functions and its importance to NASA’s future space mission. Students will describe how the change in the position (motion) object is always judged and described in comparison reference point; explain that motion describes the change in the position an object (characterized by a speed and direction) changes; and explain that an unbalanced force acting on an object changes that object's speed and/or direction.
Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Subjects: Science
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