Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006aas...20917003p&link_type=abstract
2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #170.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
For the past two years, we have offered an undergraduate science seminar as part of the Fiat Lux program at UCLA. Entitled "To Boldly Go: NASA, Your Money in Space", the course is aimed at non-science majors, and designed with the "concerned voter" in mind. The course reviews the many activities of NASA, its accomplishments, and their costs, including a study of the federal budget and general consumer spending. The course focuses on the local NASA center, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The students summarize their findings with a paper on the topic "Are current NASA funding priorities correct: What I would do if I were the NASA Administrator", followed by a tour of JPL. By the end of the course, most of the students display a much more informed and nuanced view of government-sponsored science and engineering programs.
Pitesky Jo Eliza
Turner Jonathan
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