Series: Under Construction-the ISS

Welcome inside the:

photo of the Space Station Processing Facility

Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF)

Located just east of the Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center's industrial area, the SSPF was built for processing ISS flight hardware. A three-story building has two processing bays, an airlock, operational control rooms, laboratories, logistics areas, office space, and a cafeteria. The processing areas, airlock, and laboratories were designed to support non-hazardous Station and Shuttle payloads in 100,000 class clean work areas.

You can have a peek inside the building with the live video feeds at: http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/payload/missions/station/sspf-video.html

WebCast uses RealMedia	See: Introduction - The SSPF

Event type	Date	Grade level	Time	Technology Required	Subject
	Wednesday, November 15, 2000	All ages	10-11:30am PST 1-2:30pm EST 6-7:30pm GMT	Chat room and RealVideo	Introductory International Space Station Under Contruction WebCast Joe and Brandt will show you around the interior of the building in which the Space Station components are prepared for launch and assembly. Some lesson helps are available.

Lesson Helps to Use in Preparation

As you prepare your students to attend the November segment of the ISS Under Construction series, we would like to suggest some very simple research activities that will help them make the most of this online experience!

Step 1:Assign groups to a proportional number of the following suggested questions.

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/factsheets/index.html

Starting point for 1st three discussion items: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/reference/

Name the countries that are International Parners on the Space Station.
Give the length and width fo the completed Space Station.
When was/will the Space Station be inhabited?
See: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/reports/issreports/1998/
Find and name the first component of the Space Station launched.
Start here for the next 2 questions: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/assembly
Discuss energy collection on the Space Station.
From where were the first inhabitants launched? See: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/science/earth/
Name some goals of the Space Station. See: http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/facilities/sspf.htm
What is the purpose of the SSPF? http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/
What does it take to see the ISS from Earth?

Step 2: Ask students to share their work with the class and to formulate questions that will be presented during the live event.

Step 3: Attend the Webcast. Anything that students were unable to find in the above websites is good material for asking the experts during the webcast.