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Sending Teachers to Space

Posted Apr 23, 2006 at 02:12PM by Kelly T. Listed in: News Tags: New Mexico, Space Frontier Foundation
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sending teachers to space


There's been a huge interest in commercial space travel in the past few years with the spaceport in New Mexico that's nearing completion. Along with this excitement there has been great interest in a program to get both public and private school teachers into space, known as the “Teachers in Space Program”. Currently there are 3 free tickets from different companies, ranging from $100,000 to $200,000 US, that've been set aside for this purpose.

"The eventual goal of the program is to get at least 100 teachers a year into suborbital spaceflight, with a mix of private and public funding," Rick Tumlinson of the Space Frontier Foundation, explained. "However, we realize that it's premature to begin any legislative action to get that funding... So what we're starting with is going after private contributions from either companies or individuals."

The purpose would be to allow teachers to get first-hand experience and knowledge of what they are teaching and to inspire their students to work harder.

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