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Spinoff story
NASA Kite Invention Spurs Ever-Growing Educational Program
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
When leaders at Wayne Regional Educational Service Agency (RESA) of Wayne County, Michigan, contacted NASA about aerial monitoring of ponds and streams, they learned of AeroPods, invented at Goddard Space Flight Center’s Wallops Flight Facility. The devices stabilize imagers suspended from kite string. With funding through a NASA Cooperative Agreement Notice award, Wayne RESA and Wallops personnel created the Investigating Climate Change and Remote Sensing Project around the AeroPod, including 60 lesson plans now used at numerous middle and high schools.