Space Educators’ Handbook 23th Anniversary DVD

1989-2012Jerry Woodfill

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.

Background Continued

• 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:

Background Continued

• 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

Background Continued

• 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

Background Continued

• 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 (23 Years)

1989 14 Megabytes (10 HD Diskettes)

2009 3.5 Gigabytes ( 1 DVD)

1989 Black and White Images Only (Bit Mapped)

2009 RGB Color (600 plus dpi)

2010 No sound, except for robotic sounding speech synthesizer

2009 100s of .wav sound clips

2010 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)