This close-up view of a water bubble floating freely on the middeck of space shuttle Atlantis shows a refracted image of astronaut Leland Melvin, STS-129 mission specialist. Credit: NASA
- This close-up view of a water bubble floating freely on the middeck of space shuttle Atlantis shows a refracted image of astronaut Leland Melvin, STS-129 mission specialist.
- Leland Melvin gets kids attention. Those silly astronaut tricks help to get them motivated and inspired to do better in school and especially in the STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and math).
- Regan Geeseman has flown on NASA's microgravity flights many times. He is very good at moving around in weightlessness -- even going upside down!
- In microgravity, astronaut Suni Williams could easily move this equipment that weighs more than 700 pounds on Earth.
- Astronauts Charles O. Hobaugh (bottom), STS-129 commander; and Mike Foreman, mission specialist, are pictured on the middeck of Space Shuttle Atlantis during flight day two activities. Hobaugh is exercising on a bicycle ergometer.
- This group of teachers trained to be astronauts so they could take it all back to the classroom and inspire the students. The plan works. Rachel Manzer, Steve Heck and Edward Wright.
- Students from Ferebee-Hope Elementary School in Washington, D.C., take turns trying on a glove from a spacesuit.
- Astronaut Tracy Caldwell-Dyson performs the Kids in Micro-g Newton's Space Office Experiment from East Hartford-Glastonbury Elementary Magnet School in East Hartford, Conn.
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