Costa, V., Cook, L., and Burton, M. (January, 2018).  Read and Write Like an Engineer (with NASA’s BEST Engineering Design Process). Workshop presented for the 2018 Hawaiian International Conference on Education (HICE), Waikiki, HA.

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SPACE SAILING WITH NASA

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Electric Sail

Solar Sail

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Workshop Resources

• ​Workshop Presentation (PPT)
• Workshop Presentation (PDF)
• NASA's BEST Website

Space Sailing Activity Resources

• ​Space Sailing Activity Guide
• NASA Begins Testing of Revolutionary E-Sail Technology (article)
• New NASA Spacecraft will be Propelled by Light (article)​

Read and Write Like Engineer Resources

• Introduction to NASA's BEST Educators Activity Guide (draft)
• ​Technical Text Activity

Engineering Design Process Resources

• Fred and the Widget
• EDP Quiz
• ​EDP Foldable

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Workshop Videos

Sailing in Space (Rocketboom), 2:05 min

Light Sail Then and Now (Bill Ne, Planetary Society), 3:07 min

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Space Sailing Activity Videos

Animation of Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transport System (HERTS) (NASA), 1:32 min

HELIOS Advanced Solar Sail Concept (NASA), 3:30 min