Space Educators’ Handbook 20th Anniversary DVD

1989-2009Jerry Woodfill

Morning Topic: Dec. 1, 2008

Media Capacity Increase:From 700 MBs to 4.7 GBs.

History of HandbookOnset Date: October 22, 1989

Background

• Space Educators’ Handbook: An outgrowth of JSC’s (1989) New Initiative Office (NIO).

• NIO’s charter was: “To go where none had gone before with NASA technology.”

• None had collected/organized/digitized NASA public domain text and graphic resources into an interactive space encyclopedia.

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• The Apple Macintosh with its freely available “HyperCard” application was the catalyst for the project originally named:

THE SPACE ADVOCATES HANDBOOK*The project produced many firsts in the

universe of digital/text/graphical interactive content:

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• SPACE EDUCATORS’ HANDBOOK firsts:• First digital/text/graphical/ interactive content:• Digital Comic Book: “The Apollo 13 Story”• Digital Version of NASA SPINOFF magazine• Digital interactive graphical map of the United

States accessing state related data such as: state astronauts, space contributions.

• Digital interactive “point and click” historic time line linking to historic space events

Background Continued

• Still More Space Educators’ Handbook firsts:

• First interactive Space Art content• First interactive Astronaut biographies• First interactive NASA historic mission

files• First interactive NASA Mission/Astronaut

files. • First interactive space quotes files

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• Still More Firsts:• First Interactive space education files• First Interactive space calendar files for each calendar

day in space history• First interactive science fiction/space technology files

comparing actual NASA craft to scifi counterparts• First interactive space exploration files featuring manned exploration concepts for missions to

Mars, return to the Moon, etc. * First interactive space knowledge files for sizing and

costing booster systems, mission designs including mass property/system cost algorithms

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• Still more firsts:• First interactive digital space history files• First digital interactive space coloring book• First digital Space Mathematics interactive

files based on printed NASA publication SPACE MATHEMATICS

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• AND ONE PROUD SECOND!• The Second interactive astronomy digital-text-

graphical file depicting the planets and features of the cosmos. (The first was a HyperCard stack produced in Australia on a Macintosh computer.) The SPACE EDUCATORS’ HANDBOOK digitized NASA public domain astronomy publications as a HyperCard file independently.

Handbook History (1989)

Benefits

• Include former multiple Space Educators’ Handbook CDROMs on a single Data DVD which plays on virtually all computers produced in the last three years, i.e., laptops and desktops.

Growth (20 Years)

1 14 Megabytes (10 HD Diskettes)

2 3.5 Gigabytes ( 1 DVD)

1989 Black and White Images Only (Bit Mapped)

4 RGB Color (600 plus dpi)

5 No sound, except for robotic sounding speech synthesizer

6 100s of .wav sound clips

7 Crude 1900s cartoon-like animations

2009 100s of .wmv color video movies and clips

DVD Content

• Space Educators’ Handbook• Robotic Educators’ Workshop• HyperSpinoff Search Program • Added Video Content: Example: Chariot

and SPR (Small Pressurized Rover)