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    The California Space Institute, or CalSpace, at UCSD, and UCSD's Teacher Education Program are involved in the KidSat project. CalSpace will be the "interface between high tech NASA and less high tech (middle/high) schools", said Ride.
    A mission control room similar to the Johnson Space Center mission control room, is presently under construction in the vacated labs on the ground floor of the Chemistry Research Building, next to Peterson Hall. This mission control room, which will be run by UCSD undergraduates and some high school students, will relay commands from the kids in classrooms across the country to Johnson Space Center, where they will then by sent on to the space shuttle. Communication concerning the specifics of the command may then ensue between the shuttle and the kids. Finally, the video images from the video camera will be broadcast live over NASA select, and the electronic still photographs will travel at a delayed rate of a few minutes. UCSD is integral to this project because it will be the only link-up between young students and the shuttle for the project's duration.
    UCSD undergraduates employed by CalSpace, contribute the majority of the labor behind this project, with a few graduate students working on the engineering aspect of the mission. These team members are responsible for setting up the hardware in the control center and designing the software necessary for communication between each of the parties involved, as well as the interpolation of the digital images from the electronic still camera.
Third year Muir student and member of the KidSat scientific visualization team, Adam Burgasser, said "It (will) really empower