Home Schoolers and Aruba
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NASA Mike started installing GOES Gvar in Schools
Our First 6 home schooler interns, who worked at G
Richard Winter joined us soon after
Our Original Home School
The Home schooler moms
Janice Lynn was a major contributor
Intern Walt Lynn and mom, Janice
Intern Heidi Gruzensky.
Intern Walt Linn
Walt Lynn demonstrating to Reps from other schools
Intern Beth Linnn
Intern Bobby Price
Intern Richard Winter
Aruba-bound team planning
12-yr old Michaela Grunzensky our youngest Intern
Intern Nathan
The Home schooler Moms were essential
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Intern Bobby Price here with his mom
Dave Beverley first joined NASA Mike on COOLSPACE
CDs were big new deal back in 1997and they cost$2
Original 486 PC used for the GOES Gvar Receive
Bobby on the roof with GOES WeFax antenna
Richard learned how to use the RF Spectrum Analyze
Heidi helped assemble the second GOES 12ft antenna
Heidi with a big wrench pointing the 12-ft dish
Walt learned how to point antennas
Teacher, Todd D'Anna, Joined COOL SPACE
Demos by the homeschoolers at GSFC were routine.
Walt Linn working on his own GVAR project
Typical GOES Gvar Image and film loop
Colorizing options were being developed
We made a new COOL SPACE tee shirt for the Aruba
Andy Humphrey
Andy Humphrey NBC 4 meteorologist
TV Interview of NASA Mike and the COOL SPACE Home
NBC video-ing preps for the Aruba trip
Richard gets his time on the Air
The new Aruba-COOL SPACE Tee shirts were a big hit
News story had the students up on the roof also.
a film loop of realtime weather over Washington DC
Barbara Scott was enlisted to chaperone our intern
Fred Espenak is a world class Eclipse Scientist
Path of Totality passed over Aruba
Fred and Barbara get checked out onthe GVAR system
Everyone is gearing up to predict the ArubaWeather
RF Away Team
NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
Dave Israel was the RF engineer
Aruba is a tiny island off the north coast of S.A
Walt Linn, Barbara Scott, and Michaela Gruzensky
Tough duty, being in Aruba for this eclipse,
there were clouds around near eclipse time.
NASA Gear being set up in Aruba
RF team testingTILT in Aruba prior to the livelink
Aruba Covered the Solar Eclipse
Dave Israel is interviewed on Aruba TV
Fernando checking out the NASA RF Gear.
Beth Linn working up weather reports for Aruba
Mom at GSFC collected data and did weatherforecast
NBC was on-hand to cover the real timeEclipseEvent
Colorized Gvar images sent to Aruba from Home Team
Hundreds of spectators in Aruba
Local Aruba Sepctators
Spectators in Aruba getting ready for the big mome
Dave Beverley getting the weather data from GSFC
Fernando checking the Path of Totality
COOL SPACE Team in action in Aruba
Everyone is getting ready
Hot Aruba TV reporter, DJ, interviews COOL Dave
Home schoolers GVar Product sent routinely toAruba
Colorized version of GVAR data showing Cloudheight
Dave Israel - It works!!!
Totality lasted about 5 minutes as I recall.
Coronal Loops
Post eclipse Interviews of Dave and Dave and Bill
Happiness in Aruba. Job well done.
Good bye to some friends in Aruba.
NASAMike turned 50 on Feb 20, 1998
50 Dove Dark Chocolate bars for NASAMike's 50th