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Proposal for Fall 1998 NASA Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities University of California San Diego November 20, 1998 Contact Information Coordinator/Student Investigator: Jeff Pedersen email: jtpeders@ucsd.edu phone: (619) 534-5827 fax: (619) 822-1277 EarthKAM/CASS University of California San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr. 0426 La Jolla, CA 92093 Faculty Advisors: Dr. Sally Ride, Professor of Physics phone: (619) 534-5827 Dr. Dan Lubin, Associate Research Physicist phone: (619) 534-6369 Team Members: Jeff Pedersen, Senior, Structural Engineering Joshua Graham, Junior, Aerospace Engineering Andrew Chen, Junior, Mechanical Engineering Katie Jacikas, Junior, Aerospace Engineering 1.0 Abstract EarthKAM (Earth Knowledge Acquired through Middle schools) is a NASA funded, web based program that is student managed and operated at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), under the direction of Dr. Sally Ride. EarthKAM allows middle school students from around the world to submit requests for earth observation photographs to be taken from the Space Shuttle. These requests are coordinated at UCSD (converted from the requested latitude and longitude into the predicted time the orbiter will pass over the requested coordinates) and sent to an electronic still camera that is mounted on a fixed, hand operated bracket in the overhead window of the orbiter. After four successful shuttle missions, EarthKAM is transitioning to the International Space Station (ISS). Part of this transition as the first payload aboard the ISS requires implementation of a new camera bracket. A student team at UCSD has designed and built the electronic ground controlled camera bracket that will mount in the nadir looking window of the US Lab module. One of the potential problems with using 1
