‘NASA STEM Stars’: Space Station Payload Facility Integrator

Date: July 24th, 2020
Time: 2:00 ET
NASA Role Models: Ansley Browns
NASA Center: Johnson Space Center
Topic: Johnson Space Center Space Station Payload Facility Integrator

Ansley Browns helps prepare experiments (payloads) for the International Space Station. Astronauts have conducted thousands of experiments on this laboratory in space. Browns discusses her work as a manager coordinating experiments worldwide with those conducted by astronauts in orbit. Browns also talks about traveling the world for work and the fun she has working at NASA. Listen as she explains how to see the space station fly over your house.

STEM Short Activity: Spot the Station and EarthKam….Become a Citizen Scientist by helping NASA with Mapping.

Objective: Find the space station from home. Use the space station camera with your class/group.
Duration: Time varies for locating Spot the Station information for your town and for learning about EarthKam.
Materials Needed: Smart Device, journal and writing utensil
Difficulty: Easy

Next Generation Science Standards: MS-ESS1-1,  MS-ESS1-2 ,MS-ESS1-3, MS-ETS1-1

“NASA STEM Stars” is a webchat series. Each chat introduces a science, technology, engineering or math career, addresses a STEM topic and highlights a NASA mission. The chat includes a STEM activity that students can do at home. After the interviews, experts answer students’ questions.