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Gil,
 
Sounds like you and the kids have done a lot of work for NASA.   I'm 
impressed.  Hope you win the top prize. 
 
Merry Christmas. 
 
Wayne 
KB1FDW
 
 


Greenkeys has not heard much from me lately, but I am still  here
checking in for admin stuff, usually every day.  Life has been busy  as
usual:  hauling kids around, sitting at baseball practices in the  cold,
trying to keep my cub scouts interested, finding reasons to buy  new
camera lenses, and attempting to play a little guitar with my son.   Have
not had much time for teletypes unfortunately, though I do have a few  I
want to work on.

For the last couple of months I have been coaching  my daughter's
sixth-grade aerospace team -- we won a spot in the finals a  week ago.
Out of about 1000 kids, in 250 teams from across Arizona, my team  of
four kids is one of six teams that compete in the finals Dec 31.   While
we may not win in finals, just getting there was a big thing for  our
team and school. We designed a lunar station including  artificial
gravity, robotic vehicles to mine the moon's surface for helium-3,  a
launch pad with various support craft for moving cargo and crew  to/from
the surface to spacecraft in lunar orbit, developed a plan for  missions
to Mars including in-orbit fueling of an ion-engine Mars craft,  provided
details for habitation, air, water, food, recreation, shielding  and
power systems for a crew of 40 for two years, etc.  We built a  scale
model, wrote a 50-page paper, and survived a day of grilling by  judges
from Honeywell.  Now the kids need to give a formal presentation  in
front of engineers and a half-dozen NASA astronauts.  The winner gets  an
on-field presentations at the Fiesta Bowl, and a behind-the-scenes  tour
of the Johnson Space Center.  We've got our fingers  crossed.


gil




gil smith
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