{"id":61168,"date":"2015-03-03T15:20:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T23:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=61168"},"modified":"2019-02-07T13:52:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T21:52:01","slug":"students-tour-nasa-for-salute-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/03\/03\/students-tour-nasa-for-salute-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Students tour NASA for \u201cSALUTE\u201d event"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"[Left]<\/a>
[Left] NASA engineer Matt Berry welcomes an enthusiastic student aboard the DC-8. [Right] Students witness an ER-2 flyover.<\/figcaption><\/figure>EDWARDS AFB \u2013 Hundreds of local students and their chaperones toured NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center Monday as part of a Science and Aerospace Leaders United as Team Edwards (SALUTE) event.<\/p>\n

The daylong event was organized by Zachary Wright<\/strong>, Alexander Chin<\/strong> and Brittany Martin<\/strong>, the three employees selected for NASA\u2019s Foundation of Influence, Relationships, Success and Teamwork (FIRST) program.<\/p>\n

\"Visitors<\/a>
Visitors aboard the DC-8.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Every year, employees selected for this leadership development program must organize a project at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center. For their project, Wright, Chin and Martin arranged an open house for students in the Muroc School District, base personnel, military and their families to see what NASA is doing at Edwards Air Force Base.<\/p>\n

The mission of the event was to increase the community\u2019s awareness of NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center\u2019s missions and capabilities, Martin said.<\/p>\n

\"Students<\/a>\u201cWe had three goals. The first one was to increase the basewide awareness\u2026 the second was to increase our own center\u2019s awareness, get people knowledgeable about the things that the other side does,\u201d Martin said. \u201cThe third part was to do STEM outreach to the local schools, so we brought the Muroc Unified School District on in the morning and Edwards Air Force base [students] on in the afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

\"Buses<\/a>
Buses arrive at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Pilot<\/a>
Pilot Troy Asher chats with students inside the G-II aircraft.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Engineer<\/a>
Engineer Ethan Baumann discusses the ACTE project.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Student<\/a>
Student use the pneumatic robotic arms (education display).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Students<\/a>
Students have some fun with an astronaut cutout.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Students<\/a>
Students exit the G-II aircraft.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The mission of the event was to increase the community\u2019s awareness of NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center\u2019s missions and capabilities.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EDWARDS AFB \u2013 Hundreds of local students and their chaperones toured NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center Monday as part of a Science and Aerospace Leaders United as Team Edwards (SALUTE) event. The daylong event was organized by Zachary Wright, Alexander Chin and Brittany Martin, the three employees selected for NASA\u2019s Foundation of Influence, Relationships, Success […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1494],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}