Students Record Spellbinding Video of Disintegrating Spacecraft (w/ Video)
Monday, June 28, 2010 - 15:35
in Astronomy & Space
Last year, high school science teacher Ron Dantowitz of Brookline, Mass., played a clever trick on three of his best students. He asked them to plan a hypothetical mission to fly onboard a NASA DC-8 aircraft and observe a spacecraft disintegrate as it came screaming into Earth's atmosphere. How would they record the event? What could they learn?