More Historical Milestones of the Can Do Project
GeoCam
on STS-57 (1993) - Can
Do’s GeoCam payload took the first pictures of the
Earth taken from space by a school project. Students sent the Shuttle
crew target lists from the world’s first student operated
control room. A record 250 student designed scientific experiments
were also flown. The mission was reported in National Geographic
Magazine and in a hour long documentary produced by
SCETV.
BOC
Challenge (1994) - Can Do
supplied single use cameras to skippers of the famous around the
world boat race to enable students to collect global data. The
skippers sent the data home from ports around the world while
students followed the race progress on the Internet.
Comet
Shoemaker - Levy 9 (1994) - A
collision between a comet and the planet Jupiter was regarded as the
"astronomy event of the century and managed to exceed even this high
expectation. Can Do teachers enjoyed the unique opportunity to
witness the event from front row seats aboard the KAO in Melbourne,
Australia and at the Hubble
Space Telescope control room in
Maryland.
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Bahamas
Underwater (1995) - Charleston
County classroom teachers used waterproof cameras to record the
ecology of living coral reefs and underwater experiments. They crewed
sail boats through the Bahamas as the highlight of a Tropical Marine
Science Course.
KidSat
(1996-1997) - Charleston Middle
School students collected digital images of Earth in the maiden
flight of a Shuttle crew operated digital camera in a project hosted
by NASA Jet Propulsion Lab. Charleston was one of three school
districts in the nation chosen to pilot this major ongoing NASA
program in recognition of the pioneering flight of the GeoCam
payload.
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