hi campers welcome to the first day of
maker camp I'm so excited to have you
there's so much for you to see that
we're going to launch the show today
with Paolo astronaut Buzz Aldrin and
we're going to be talking to the NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center who's going
to be building a telescope to see back
to the beginning of the universe and
plus today's projects stop rockets boom
so get excited get ready we're going to
make something great welcome to maker
camp
you
great to see so many of you joining us
on our first week which is makers in
motion I'm so excited to see all of you
here I'm your camp director Paloma I
can't throughout their Sam and I'm camp
director Burke we're really excited for
all of you to join us here today and one
of the best parts about being on the
Internet is that it's a two-way street
so we want your questions and comments
and feedback as we go and will actually
answer a few of those later in the show
and if you want to participate with us
you can go to maker camp calm and fill
out a form and you might be able to
appear live on air with us in a future
episode but right now let's go live to
sherry husks over at the new york hall
of science she's working with a few
young makers right now sherry can hear
us I can are you guys doing we're doing
are you sherry excellent so what are you
guys doing up there at the hollow
science well actually I'm here with
deanne wampa and what we're doing is
we're actually getting a whole group of
young makers out there excited about
today's project which is stomp rockets
awesome yes that sounds wonderful yes
stock markets is a really great project
for sure it's really good how are you
guys doing House house launch so far
we're doing great I'm so excited this I
mean we've got a great show today so I
am really happy to be able to be on and
I'm happy to have the new york hall of
science with us as well actually we are
too we are too so what are you guys
going to be doing at the whole science
today well we're actually i'm going to
introduce the end to you here and i
think what's really important about
being here at the new york hall of
science is that this is the home of
world maker faire in new york and this
will be our 5th annual World Maker Faire
so we're pretty excited to being here
and in addition to that this is also the
50th and 75th anniversary of the new
york world's fair so what's important
about that is in addition to being the
home of the New York Hall of Science
also known as nice i is that it's it's
really important for transportation and
that's the theme of this week so i'm
gonna introduce you to Dan wampa who is
our partner in crime here and Dan's
going to tell you a little bit about
what's important about transportation
week here you go Dan thanks sherry and
good afternoon everyone it's great to
have you back
for our third straight maker camp
launched here with the hollow science as
sherry mentioned we were founded at the
1964 World's Fair so this is our 50th
anniversary this year and this section
of the park were relocated was the
transportation zone at the 1964 world's
fair to the World's Fair was all about
latest technology so in 1964 the latest
and transportation meant two things
remain cars this is where the Ford
Mustang made its debut right outside in
our backyard was the Ford pavilion and
right over my shoulder is a mercury
space capsule the other the other great
transportation innovation of the 60s
obviously with space travel and we had
several exhibits here at the World's
Fair that we're all about space and
rockets on display from pretty much
every stage of the space program as we
knew at that point so the Mercury
program the Gemini program and Saturn 5
which hadn't flown yet that was what
took first men to the moon there was a
model of what was to come so in 1964 we
were still five years away from the
first steps on the moon the capsule
that's behind me the Mercury capsule is
dubbed friendship one so John Glenn flew
into space the first American in space
on friendship seven friendship one two
three four five and six were test
missions so this capsule flew for about
45 seconds to test some of the launch
apparatus at Cape Canaveral splashdown
in the water about 40 seconds after
liftoff and it was brought here for the
World's Fair and at the fair was
actually a simulator the kids could go
in and have a simulated space ride so
that's an honest-to-goodness capsule
right there it shows you just how brave
John Glenn and his peers work as it is
very tiny but yeah so the space park at
the World's Fair was all about
transportation innovations how we were
going to get to the moon how we were
going to figure out what was beyond the
planet and the Hall of Science that's
one of our big legacies here we still
have two rockets out in our front guard
in our rocket park and we've used those
as an excuse to show how mini-golf and
rockets have a whole lot in common
they're both the same physics is at the
heart of both attractions I always say
so space has always been in our blood
here and I think it's really great that
we're building rockets with you guys
today I think of no more fitting way to
start maker camp right well thank you
Dan and again this goes to show you that
we are at the intersection of art
science and technology right here at
nice
but hey campers we've got a great
program for you so why don't will let
paloma you and the teeth take it away
and will join us later as we make stomp
rocket so happy first day at maker camp
whoo we're glad that you're all here and
let's have a great summer making bye bye
thank you so much for telling us about
that that was really interesting and as
sherry said we have so many amazing
makers that we're going to be showing
you throughout maker camp that discuss
the intersection of art science and
technology in really great ways and we
also have some really amazing projects
that we're going to be bringing you
throughout maker yeah very right very
true and help you get through today's
projects we're going to kick it over to
our camp counselors we're going to give
you start with us counselors yourselves
hey campers I'm dance I'm Ryan and I'm
looking forward to seeing your projects
this summer so take pictures and videos
of what you're working on post them to
the community page and show us what you
made what you learned and what you want
to make next so we'll also show you new
projects every day like the stomp
rockets which is this right here it uses
a soda bottle to launch these
custom-made paper rockets and we want to
will post videos of it working and we'll
show you a clip on the hangout tomorrow
that's right so make sure you get your
videos and comments in because yeah I
more videos we get in the better it'd be
fantastic to see what you guys are
making out there yeah I cannot wait to
see I mean that you guys every year you
guys post so much on the community it's
hard to keep up with it but I love
seeing what you post and I cannot wait
to see what you do this year and I'm
also really excited to be able to
introduce our first guest you guys I was
so excited when I found out that we were
going to have this first guess you don't
even know I was jumping up and down and
like calling everyone in my family and
telling them about this but with us we
have dr. Buzz Aldrin joining us thank
you so much for joining us oh it's been
a pleasure to join you on this initial
mission of introducing young kids the
maker camp and I'm happy to
to them I've got a couple of projects so
you just tell me when you're ready
describe a few things well thank you so
much for being here today buzz and um
you know I just wanted to start off with
a really quick question I mean we all
know that you have done some amazing
things with space I mean you were you
were one of the first people to walk on
the moon but what at what age did you
first decide that you wanted to be
involved with space well when I was
looking at me we had buck Roger Flash
Gordon and I thought I bet that's
interesting I kind of heard that
Robbie's not gonna happen for a long
time up but then you know there was
something cause but Nick and United
States really does but Nikola Russia
might pay too much because I was in
Germany romantic fighters nuclear alert
so I knew that we were going to have a
space program in order to be an
astronaut you have to have been trained
as a test pilot for some reason I had
not collected that because I wanted to
look on testing airplanes will be flying
in the atmosphere if there was a
facebook event and the Air Force had a
part of it that's what I was hard to do
so I went on with my chosen career after
leaving being a fire pilot in Germany I
went to MIT for three years decided I
needed a subject why don't I take
fighter pilot procedures like getting on
a final interceptor and that compare
that to space rendezvous where we have a
spacecraft trying to intercept as other
spacecraft in orbit and so my thesis
developing rendezvous techniques turned
out to be a significant interest to nest
so when a friend of mine ed white who
neither killed in the Apollo fire but
also West Point graduate he said look
hey I'm going to apply for
group of astronauts in 1963 62 I said
well I I can shoot gunnery better I said
that two airplanes I'm Korea so i'll
apply to well i didn't meet the criteria
but the next year they did lower the
standards raising standards instead of
having to attend a test pilot school
they wanted more education so I was
eventually selected in the third group
of astronauts from started training in
64 so that's how I the astronaut product
my father was an aviation pioneer my
first airplane ride was in Lockheed Vega
high wing painted to look like an eagle
so that I was two years old when I had
that first right and of course the
symbol of our country is an eagle and
later I was to landed on the moon and
the eagle I have my father one of his
first assignments he has studied at a
school in Massachusetts and his physics
professor was Robert Goddard the father
of liquid rocket research my father's
first assignment was with general Billy
Mitchell was later the court-martial of
Billy Mitchell Mitchell but it was dad
was his age and over in the Philippines
he met my mother a daughter of an army
chaplain and married her her maiden name
was Marion moon ok so I had an uncle and
it seemed flapper noon when he has
unwritten so my grandmother was mama
moon so it was so I became associated
sort of indirectly with things in space
but also I had learned
to scuba dive and i found that diving
slowly underneath the ocean is very much
like loading in space so that was to
come up later on you influenced by
becoming the first astronaut to train
under water neutral buoyancy or space
walking and that turned out to be a
success on Germany plate so I was in a
good position to be with Neil Armstrong
backing up the first flight went to the
moon Christmas of 1968 and then we
transfer it over to three flights later
he recruits than any other two so we
were in rhyme for Apollo 11 okay that's
how we got there so dr. Aldrin we have a
lot of young campers here with us today
I was wondering is there any uh not
often told anecdote Young earlier in
your career that that would be really
interesting to young campers something
that that that might be inspiring to
number perhaps uh something that just it
is isn't often known perhaps a time
period when it was earlier difficult in
your career or something you had to
overcome what would be one of those
instances that you remember well I was
athletic I was a bobble turd so I kept
in great shape when too good a swimmer
on top of the war but under the water I
learned how to relax and and I learned
to be confined there was a cubby hole on
my room and it was very confining but I
could crawl through this cubby hole so
so being crowded by people when you go
to West Point your middle a whole bunch
of people you're marching hearts that
bothersome prism up but but being I
crowded in and then having the freedom
of underwater turned out to be very
useful in outer space and then you need
a mind
at dominant things logically and so I
took my fighter pilot periods and
transferred it over whoo rendezvous
intercepts of spacecraft in orbit and
knowing happened do that later after i
left nasa i decided that yes we could
have orbits going back and forth between
the Earth and the moon for tourism mean
by the front side the back side but it
was suggested that maybe I look at Mars
well Mars is not that different really
earth goes around the Sun Mars goes
around the Sun so if we sort of water
leave want to go to the other as an
awful lot like him and I or Apollo
spacecraft wanting to join up with
something around the earth so it is kind
of all the same things I came up with
something that I thought was very useful
very logical let's send something from
the earth way around Mars and come back
to the earth again and keep doing that
cycling spaceship but I forgot a project
that I need your help on I'm starting a
social media campaign tomorrow through
YouTube to remind the world about the
Apollo 11 first landing on the moon and
we'll post the video with clips from
jared leto pharell williams neil
degrasse tyson Bill Nye I many many more
so you can go tube dot com forward slash
power 45 to see the video of all these
people Tom Hanks uh no just a whole
bunch more now your kids don't have to
know how to do that what hit your
parents you can show them how to get out
to /a Apollo 45 and they will look at
these and then they can record and send
in where we were they were back in
nineteen sixty-nine when the first
landing wasn't televised back here on
earth and what impression did it make on
them so I'm counting on you who weren't
there then to help your parents tell the
rest of the world what impact of Apollo
11 man's first landing on the moon was
to them I know a lot of people watch
Mamie Biggins all around the world so
remember use the hashtag Oh 45 and this
will go viral so I'm counting on you
thanks for that um that actually sounds
amazing I can't wait see what comes out
and so you want campers to get involved
by recording videos of them and their
parents and talking about I I want the
whole world to see this via the social
media we had to get them thinking about
not just the 40 50 at the 50th that will
be coming up in five years because that
is the very big anniversary of almost
anything getting married anything else
of 50th anniversary the big yellow tell
you I haven't made it yet I probably
never will but that is an opportunity
that is an opportunity as we look back
to see the wondrous things that have
come from our space program nobody heard
the word stem stem education because we
were at the top but now everybody's
talking about science technology
engineering and math and and we're
getting a lot closer now with logical
ways of a sequence of missions that
leads common-sense way to put people
permanently on the planet Mars and that
sort of a commitment and be made by a
president on the 50th anniversary of
landing on the moon in 2019 it will help
him or her get reelected well if they
say we're going to go back in the moon
and but we're not going to get there for
10 years and we're going to join the
Chinese we're already there that's
that's you popular so you want young
people to reach much much further
something far more profound inspiring
absolutely what could be more inspiring
to future than to real office that
humans on earth have advanced
technically to the point where make
another brief little visit to our moon
come right back but thou we can commit
ourselves to a growing permanence
internationally led by the United States
helping all the other nations at the
moon doing what we did 45 years ago so
how do we get to Mars well there's a
basic spacecraft I thought a Mars
exploration spacecraft now this is the
rocket lesson there this is the very key
item expiration module we've decided we
don't need this node and this is sort of
a fictitious it's not an Orion
spacecraft this is where the solar
electric propulsion would be so very
simply propulsion also without the node
we have propulsion that this is the
vehicle radio now we're going to
this is so I cling back and forth
between Earth and Mars now and and to
give us reliability we're going to have
three of them here here and here we
won't need these that's just to get them
there into the continuous our vision we
decided we don't need notes so this is a
little better description of what the
solar electric propulsion nuttin can you
up those then on to our decisions yes if
you can post those images and
information on the community page I love
for our maker campers to be able to make
their contributions to that and and
along with it I I think it's absolutely
great that we will do that but they will
be improved in two or three days okay
fantastic well we'll help you so much
dr. Aldrin for taking taking time today
to uh speak with us and I'm more than
certain with your wonderful
contributions to the United States and
humanity in general it will be the least
we could do is to go to your YouTube
page and help support your campaign okay
also you ask what the base on the moon
look like three of these are like this
in each country can grow outward now
we've improved on this a lot to to make
it really more useful what this the same
thing as the cycler spacecraft with
these same three exploration modules
module all we need is a Mars Lander and
we're working on that too many people
are thank you thank you yeah thank you
so much and campers if you have an idea
of what you think it would take to go to
Mars or you know any idea or something
like that I would love to see you posted
on the community page you know whether
it be a drawing whether it be opposed of
what you think it would take I'd love to
see your idea so go ahead and post well
here this is a marg man
this is the moon mission and this is the
best asteroid mission much much better
than nASA uses asteroid coming in here
and and we're going to join it up with
little robot and a human mission both at
the same time for 60 days much better
than redirect Twitter Thank You someone
at the real bug and thank you so much
dr. Aldrin I would love for you to stay
with us cuz I know we're gonna have a
lot of questions coming through from the
campers later in the show look what you
thank you thank you again so much for
joining us it's been an honor to speak
with you for sure maybe I'll yes please
please submit your questions to the
maker camp google+ community fish and
coming up next everyone we're going to
go live to NASA the gotta Goddard Space
Flight Center where they are working on
a telescope that can look to the
beginning of time but before we do that
let's check back in with sherry at nice
I and see what those young makers
they're working on sounds great
absolutely hi sherry hey guys so we've
got a very enthusiastic crowd here
they've been enjoying the show so far
and I'm going to actually turn it over
to a bond who's going to with the help
of Terran Christian Matt and Megan are
going to help these kids make her kids
actually make some rockets so here you
go up on um well today we're not only
going to be building rockets we're
actually building one of the most
intricate and exciting ways of actually
traveling so today we're actually going
to be building stop rockets are you guys
excited yes so what we're actually going
to be doing today is using strips of
paper to actually create the body of the
rocket and one of the things that you
also notice that you generally find on
rockets are fins that generally navigate
the craft through the atmosphere um not
only does the fin play a major part in
the transportation of the rocket we
actually have to place the
nose cone you guys can actually build
your craft either with a nose cone or
without one and then we're going to test
it out see exactly how it flies guys
ready okay so what you can actually do
is use the strips of paper that you were
given and taryn can you just do that um
you guys can use the tubes to actually
roll that paper onto the the tube all
right and in doing so what you actually
wind up with is a body that generally
will look like this all right this is
just our fuselage nothing really
important but the most important part of
the craft is actually where the
astronauts it all right which will be
the cabin some of you you might see it
in front of you you have that nose cone
area we actually have a capsule inside
of our on central pavilion here that
actually looks a lot like the nose
unless you guys are going to be building
for your rockets all right this is
actually going to help it in our dynamic
and actually fly through the atmosphere
all right you guys ready so go ahead
roll those tubes onto the spools and
actually actually one of you and we're
done we'll get to launch it I've got a
place out here to launch it so take
extra care and getting it going all
right you guys won't be careful with the
design of your rockets as well so the
fins that you're placing towards the
back of your rocket will also help you
direct where the craft actually goes
alright so as was mentioned one of you
will be lucky enough to actually not
sure raucous you wanted to make sure
that you have the best design possible
all right so as soon as you're done
rolling the paper onto the spools what
you can actually do is play some tape
onto it all right you guys are set just
let me know when we come up on to the
next step so some of the things that you
actually have to take considerably
Sherman Rockets are actually being
launched is the speed of the rocket to
actually leave Earth's atmosphere a
rocket needs to travel at 25,000 miles
per per minute I'm sorry per hour in
order to actually
atmosphere alright so again the design
of it will definitely definitely play a
major part of what you've achieved are
you guys ready are you ready to move on
what who needs a little more time you
know okay so Terran can you just help
her out please alright so when you have
your nose cone what you can actually do
is take some of the tape and then take
the nose cone on to the body and we'll
be able to get a somewhat finished
product you know that those are looking
so great we're gonna go ahead and check
that I wish you guys after we go over to
NASA and Kevin you can actually take
that off of the tube and start moving
they're gonna come and check back with
us but that's good and when you come
back and thank you so much NASA you get
that looks so great and I cameras I'd
love to see your stomp rockets at the
end of the day to make sure you post
those on the Google+ community page and
now we're going to be going over to the
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center where
we're going to be checking in with the
most amazing thing ever is the James
Webb Space Telescope I'm so excited for
this this is great hi I'm mark Kushner
and I'm really excited about it too
awesome right I enjoy the Sun it so i
know that i could go on for days talking
about the james webb space telescope
because i'm kind of a nerd about it but
why don't we have you do it because
you're probably gonna have more facts
facts let's see well come up now have
you ever heard of the Hubble Space
Telescope once or twice yes yeah just
occasionally the James Webb Space
Telescope is going to be even better the
James Webb is NASA's successor to the
Hubble Space Telescope it's a joint
project between NASA the Canadian Space
Agency and the European you can see it's
a spacecraft the size of a tennis court
is so big that it doesn't even fit into
the rocket you have to fold it up and
suck it up
so it can fit into the rocket and then
we blast off and we send it a million
miles away from Earth and then it opens
up like a transformer robot and then
folds a tremendous mirror that uses
infrared light to study forming stars
and ancient galaxies the origin of the
universe the origin of our planet our
planet James Webb Space Telescope who's
his infrared light wavelengths that the
Hubble Space Telescope wasn't able to
access wasn't designed to access with
infrared light we can pierce through
your dust clouds and me baby stars form
and we can look back into the distant
past our universe this picture shows a
nebula where stars are it's called the
Eagle Nebula I bet you've seen this
picture oh yeah take a look at how this
how many stars there are in this picture
has about one maybe two or three that
you can see that's what you see what
using visible light but with infrared
light like we're going to use like what
the James Webb Space Telescope will be
able to see we're gonna pierce through
those clouds of dust and see the stars
that are forming they're forming behind
those clouds you can see in this image
that's that same image seen with
infrared light now we're going on a tour
of NASA Goddard spikes entered and
follow laura bets as she shows you where
the James Webb is being built right now
afterwards I'll tell you or about the
monsey science that we're going to do
awesome that's wonderful that's
absolutely incredible so now we're going
to take a look behind the scenes at the
cleanroom right so I'm very excited to
see that because I'm a robot nerd so
let's go ahead and take a look at that
yeah so we're going to go ahead and
check that out in just a second out it's
going to be we're so excited to see if I
had the scenes because a clean room is
where they don't allow any dust or dirt
or germs in there to mess up any other
instruments because this is such a
precise telescope that they've got to
have it completely pristine so we're
just going to go ahead and take a look
and see what it takes to have a clean
room like that hi I'm Laura bets welcome
to Goddard let me show you what's
happening with the James Webb Space
Telescope this is the gowning room for
the clean room welcome to the world's
largest corner this is my putting
together the largest fish house trip
ever the games website posted all here
in this room right now come from this
wall filters without a hundred feet tall
and before this type of filters last 15
years the airflow from this wall all the
way with white wall over there for the
tiny hole
this room has a higher pressure inside
and in any of the rooms outside so when
they open their source equipment teach
Pierre cream shows the air rushes out
and no particles from it let me show you
some of the James Webb stuff this is the
assembly sand for the telescope the
mirrors are going to be placed onto the
backplane here this is one of the james
webb space telescope mirrors right now
it's being tested to make sure that it
keeps its perfect shape now we're going
to the mezzanine level to check out the
mirror well has a lot of sex abuser all
the mirrors for the James Webb Space
Telescope come in these containers that
keep them very very clean kind of look
like pods for aliens all 18 of the james
webb space telescope mirrors are in this
room right now including the three spare
from this railing you get another
perspective of the room if you're lucky
enough to come to Goddard you can check
out what's happening in the cleanroom
from this observation deck alright let's
go check out the thermal vac chamber
this is our massive thermal vac chamber
where the heart of the James Webb Space
Telescope is being cryogenic tested
right now
Gary
this is a massive thermal vac chamber I
got it also serves a space environment
simulating so what it does is it
simulates the environment in space and
it also drops the temperatures down very
low for the heart of the James Webb
Space Telescope that's going to be
negative 425 degrees Fahrenheit or 90
degrees above absolute zero so that's
really cold and the reason why we have
to touch it such low temperatures is
because sometimes at very low
temperatures the properties of materials
change well that was fantastic video
right there I actually hadn't seen that
clean room before it's it's it's really
interesting though uh did you know that
some of the earlier cleaning rooms it
was encouraged for employees to bathe
less frequently and not go into the Sun
often do through skin flakes such
emotion yeah a lot of exchange now
entirely too um but right now I know
that we have some camp counselor
questions feeling in so why don't we go
over there and see what the campers are
asking hi so we've got a couple of
questions from kids here um one of them
is in space there's no gravity you were
in the atmosphere of the moon would you
have a degree of gravity morning
actually yeah there was a huge pile of
questions before we even had a started a
show dan is there uh there are you still
need even questions yeah I I'm pretty
sure they're still like just trying to
even sort out who is even asking these
questions I mean I know we have sam
reynolds coming in and asking some
questions this morning so i'm going to
jump in and asks it one of sam's like
huge list of questions that he says on
the community page this morning but the
first question was obviously for dr.
Buzz Aldrin um they and all of the
campers are so excited to hear from you
but stamp had a really great question
that I thought was you know really
interesting and he's you know because
all the campers that we are watching
right now may be scared to try out
something you know you know to try their
next project or they
feel like they might fail but were you
scared to go into space and if so how
did you deal with that with maybe that
fear have faced there we go oh I'm sorry
we didn't hear you in the beginning
there we had a little bit of difficulty
can you the answer is no astronauts are
not afraid of executing their mission
why because they have grown used to
difficult condition Billy may result in
their loss of life like flying I perform
in public that's that's why advanced
fighter pilots are selectively to be
astronauts and other people who become
astronauts are put through flying
training capability so they can fly and
learn what the difficulties are in
airplanes that could cause fatalities
and could cause a very concerned of
emergency procedures and you need a very
clear mind fear is a clouding emotion it
paralyzes your ability to think clearly
so you have to learn how to deal with
tough times difficult situations
threatening conditions and where is the
best help going to come from sometimes
it's you throwing a switch pushing a
button but sometimes its mission control
who will come up with the correct
solution you're liable to make it worse
if you don't fully understand what the
problem is so you really have to be
alert
to what's going on anticipate as much as
possible we train on emergency
procedures eighty percent of our time so
that we know during the normal mission
something goes wrong we know when to say
houston we got a problem and then go
solve the problem for is really great
because I I remember seeing I think it
was on Mythbusters actually that one of
the one of the guys Adam Savage was
actually saying that he wanted he was so
scared before he did one thing before he
did a test so he had to check all the
safety ropes himself he had to go
through and make everything make sure
everything was done right so i think
that knowledge is a great way to keep
yourself from getting too scared you
know if you prepare and the time hunted
you late double time but it's too late
to check all these things you have to
know how to react where to go what to do
and what not to do exactly so campers
definitely take that away from this for
sure definitely you know prepare you
know think back and really learn as much
as you can about your project before you
start it if you're a little scared to
get started and now we're going to head
over to the camper to the counselors
because they've got they've got your
questions ready so Dan and Brian hello
and I all right so I hear that you guys
have got a mountain of questions that
you're waiting through and I know that
you've got some good ones so go ahead
and take it away and let's hear what the
campers have to say so we have one or
buzz they want to know what kind of fuel
did you use in your rocket good
okay now maybe you can hit great see me
up you have many different fuels
depending on which part of the space
light we used the denser propulsion
kerosene and oxygen in the Saturn rocket
the upper two stages were higher
performance hydrogen oxygen then we want
to use in the spacecraft some may be
less efficient but it's still very good
but it doesn't require an ignition so
when the fuel and oxidizer come together
they ignite automatically then these are
called storable propellants for the
shuttle launch it left the ground with
storable but they're solid rockets and
once they start to thrust to burn you
can shut them off so that makes
emergency procedures not not so safe
when something goes wrong and you can't
shut off then you have to accelerate
faster than the Rockets going and that's
why most people who thought about it
would not want a crew to launch on a
solid rocket unfortunately that's what
constellation was all about the solid
rocket had been used on the shuttle many
times after the Challenger accident so
it looked very safe and it had a good
reputation won the contract but it
wasn't strong enough because the company
knew that they've been trying to sell
better Rockets with five segments to the
Air Force now NASA didn't oversee the
rocket the blogger crew the way they
maybe should have and
so as the weight was a little bit
increased on the spacecraft pretty soon
the four segments solid would not do so
we had to go to five and that didn't
work so we can't sold out that made that
part of our space program called
constellation Wow such as such a wealth
of information about about the fuel and
I hear that we have another questions
coming in from counselors about the
Hubble about the telescope Dan and Brian
do you have another question coming in
yeah this is the question for the guys
over at asset about how long will it
take to build the got our telescoping
you guys working on this is not forget
the James Webb Space Telescope has been
a dream for many years but we're lucky
that it's coming to fruition soon 2018
it's going to launch from french guiana
I plan to be there with some popcorn I
wish I could be there too yeah seriously
how long have you guys been working on
on designing and thinking about and
building this newer telescope it's been
more than 10 years we've been dreaming
up it takes a long time to dream up our
telescopes here at Goddard part of the
process is all the testing that has to
be done as Laura showed you in the in
the clean rooms you have to take every
component of the rocket and you have to
subject it to the forces of launch and
the the shaking and the the change in
gravity and the then you have to expose
it to the environment of space the UV
radiation the changing temperatures and
all of that testing process it takes a
long time that's what Laura showed in
that clean room so it's been a while
that we've been looking forward to this
wow I'm so excited to see it come to
fruition I 2018 is online calendar for
watching that lunch and I really hope it
goes well now counselors do you have any
more questions coming in from the
campers and we got another one they want
to know
how big is that mirror oh yes how big is
that mirror the mirror is made up of
segments each one is about this big it's
about size of me they're 18 of those
together this big all together it's
about the size of half a tennis court
about the size of a half of a 737 rocket
3737 airplane the crazy thing is that
737 by comparison is pretty heavy the
James Webb Space Telescope is so
carefully engineered that it weighs much
less than a 737 even though it's
comparable in size and then a follow-up
question how small does the whole they
do how small does it fold into to fit
into the Aryan 5 rocket it folds up
let's see they're about those 18
segments there there is a set over here
and a set over here and they all fall
together kind of like this about
scrunches up by about a factor of 3 and
the to protect those segments from the
Sun are is a whole set of heat shields
and those heat shields unfold kind of
like a like a accordion and those all
they all they all they all pack together
it's hard to say exactly maybe about a
55 different layers that are being
squashed together inside this rocket I
think maybe about a factor of three is a
good good way to think of it there are
some beautiful videos of jwst deploying
online that you can watch just go to JW
just do a google search for jwst and
you'll find everything yeah and I've
seen those videos and they're really
impressive definitely definitely worth
checking out the the mock-ups are really
great and that's what first got me into
it now we're gonna go back and check in
at nice I with the rockets and see how
they're doing so uh so hi nice i how are
you guys doing hey we're doing really
great so I'm here with the kit with Viva
kids summer camp from Brooklyn New York
and these kids have been doing some
incredible stomp rockets so we're gonna
do a little show for you now so you guys
ready okay so let's go five stop whoo
there you go yay so we've had a great
time here and we thank our hosts nice I
and you know it's been all about rockets
today and the Viva kids from Brooklyn
the summer camp is actually done a great
they've done a great job with us so
thanks all and we've we've had a great
time thank you so much Jerry thank you
much they're doing it again and look at
the great aight that you're getting out
of stomp rocket yeah keep in mind
everyone make sure you post your videos
and you know your results for making
your own style rocket remember the
Internet's a two-way street we'd love to
see what you have um right now though I
think we're about wrapping up for today
yeah i mean we could go on for hours we
have such amazing guests and you guys
keep coming up with the best questions
but unfortunately we're out to just
about done with our time today I'm so
happy to have given you this little
window into it's an amazing world and
don't worry we have six weeks ahead of
us here so there's plenty more maker
camp to come but right now I'd like to
thank sharing the New York Hall of
Science and all those hey rockets I'd
love to thank dr. Buzz Aldrin for taking
the time today to speak with us to share
us his stories and insurance that is you
know his campaigns coming up make sure
to check that out on youtube I love to
think also the scientist over at the
Goddard Space Flight Center and the
James Webb telescope which we are really
excited to see I can't wait mark it on
your calendars coming up in the next few
years all those years of work it's going
to be great payoff and yeah everyone
else out there most importantly you the
campers out there all of all of the
agents doesn't matter we're really happy
that you've joined us today and you hope
to show you the next few weeks actually
there's a lot of stuff coming up isn't
it right there's tons of stuff coming up
so be sure absolutely to tune in
tomorrow we're going to be meeting with
dan kim of lit motors he's going to be
showing off the car of the future it's
gonna be awesome Wow
great and check out maker camp on the
world or makes it on all the upcoming
shows and you know what campers I am so
excited to start this journey with you
thank you so much for being here and if
anything you saw on the show today
inspired you remember do try it at home
thank you so much campers bye take care
you