I love this book about Astronauts its really cool and i all ready read it 2 times

Also Mrs. Shanahan i love your pic on the Voki rock on! :D

Love the story my fav part was when they got to go in the MAT (Multi-Axis-Trainer!)

Do you mind if we use tht username and Pass to watch videos on brainpop Mrs.Shanahan?

Awwwww it only works during school hrs :(

thx for the username and passwords i watched like ten videos
Nitrogen,Natural Disasters,Plate Tectonics,Erosion,Big Boom theory,Dreams,Sleep, Volcano's
and I WAS THE TEACHER :D (I thought my little brother he didn't understand so i tried simplifying it)

Hahahahaha really you mean that?! Omg if i could be the teacher i would be honored especially to be able to teach science!!!!!(My fav subject!) that would be son cool if this an offer i gladly accept :DDD

What does it feel like to define gravity, Carol?

Caitlin, I've never been in space, so I have not defied gravity, but those who have tell me it is the greatest feeling. You float around in the Shuttle, flying from place to place and your feet never hurt. It's amazing.

what kind of controls did tou handle?

What does Mars look like?

Do you know what the space food taste like? Is it gross?

Have you ever gone on one of the machines that simulate being in space?

How is it possible, in the book it said Charlie Duke's life-support packed changed his center of gravity, i thought there wasnt any gravity in space

Carol, how long does it take for a space ship to get to the moon?

How does it feel to blast of 25,000mlies per hour.how long does it take to get to space

Wats your most favriote thang at your work

Carol, how is this possible, in the book it said Charlie Duke's life-support packed changed his center of gravity, i thought there wasnt any gravity in space

carol what do you do at nasa like programming or working on the rocket

Carol,what kind of works did you do at there? (*o*)/

What is your job in NASA?

What do you do when your not on a space ship?

Do you work at misson control?

How much fun is it being at NASA?

What kind of controls did you handle?

Have you ever been inside a space shuttle?

Wats your most favroite thang at your work?

Do you work in Life Support?

Are you an operator for space ships?

Is there different types of space shuttles ?

How long have you been working with NASA?

Have you ever met a real life astronut??

How long have you worked at NASA?

What is your job at NASA?

Is the multi-axis traner (mat) fun?

Has there ever been a situation when someones tether broke and they floated off into space?

Do you like working at NASA ?

Is it fun to work at NASA?

Dear, Carol what part of work technoalgy work do you do? Im just wondering,cause my friends are saying that your not a austurnot,I actully really think you were,cause some students are getting to caught up in all of this,I also want to ask one more quetion, how long did it take yo finish astuornot collage? well right or type back soon. :)

Has the equipment ever malfunctioned at N.A.S.A

Carol, how is this possible, in the book it said Charlie Duke's life-support packed changed his center of gravity, i thought there wasnt any gravity in space?

What about the space shot is it fun?

What is it like being a astronaut is it great being a astronaut by training before going to do your mission.

Is the control panel big or small ?

Has the equipment ever malfunctioned at NASA?

How about the pool is it fun?

Does NASA get interrupted? Delayed?

Salvadore, you have to remember that your stomach and intestines are used to gravity helping them move your food down your digestive track. In space, you and your digestive track are floating around and it's a little more difficult to move your food through. Besides, nothing is worse than throwing up in space. The mess does not fall to the nearest object at your feet (a table or the floor). In space vomit goes EV ERYWHERE! Gross. I just don't want to be the one who has to clean that mess up.

Have you ever gone to space camp? if you have ,is it fun?:)

Do you have to work mainly on computers

carol r u there

What controls do u do Carol?

Actually their food is in packets like Capri Sun comes in. It's easier to store the packets and storage space is important on a Space Shuttle. You can get a lot more food in the locker if all the food is in Capri Sun packets.

Have you ever seen a space shuttle go up in space? If so can you tell me what it looks like? :o3

You rock Carol.

Is it fun working at NASA?

Alexandria, space food is awesome. The cooks at NASA feel bad about the Astronauts not being able to get a home cooked meal in space, so they make the space food taste even better than what you can get at most restaurants.

I want a job at NASA what job do you recommend?

How is your life as a astronaut?

Dear,Carol how many asurnots do you Know?

jonathan she is not a astronaut!

Sanjana, I have been on a machine that lets you feel what it's like to dock the Shuttle with a satellite. The machine was moving and the satellite was not fastened to anything so it was moving and it was very hard to bring the two of them together. I was not able to complete my mission but my son was able to do it. I have not been in the plane that makes you feel like you are in space. They call the plane the Vomit Comet and I bet you can guess why. I'm afraid I might me one of the ones that vomits so I just don't want to fly in it.

Rachel, although there is little or no gravity in space, your center of gravity controls how you float or move through space. On Earth your center of gravity is right around where your stomach is. In space, when you push off to go floating toward the far wall, if your center of gravity is not near your stomach, you could end up floating away from the wall you intended to reach.

Patrick, I'm in charge of the paperwork. There are a lot of rules that have to be followed for the Space Shuttle to be safe. These rules have to be recorded. Then when they decided to change the rules or change something on the Space Shuttle, these changes have to be recorded and distributed so everyone knows what is going on. I'm in charge of making sure all this happens.

Ross, it's been so long since we went to the moon, it is hard to say how many days it would take. We do things much faster today, so my guess would be a couple of days (2 or 3).

Reana, when we are not on the Shuttle we are planning and training for the next flight. We have 3 Shuttles and each one has to be specially prepared for it's next flight. Also, the astronauts who will fly each flight have to prepare and train for the jobs they will do.

I used to work at Mission Control. During the mission we record anything that "goes wrong". If something doesn't happen like we thought it would, we record it so we can discuss it after the mission. During the mission I would update this list of Anomolies and take the list to each of the people working on Console in Mission Control.

Ross, it is too much fun to be at NASA. You get to meet Astronauts every day (I had lunch with 3 of them last Tuesday). Everyone is friendly and excited about putting people in space. Except when they don't agree about what is best for the Shuttle. Sometimes there are arguements but after everything is said, and everyone has a chance to think about everything that has been said, they all agree to the best way to do it. By the end of the meeting, we are all friends again.

Lilly, very few people have been inside a Space Shuttle. These vehicles are so complicatied, NASA does not want to take the chance that someone would accidentally break any part of the Shuttle. I have been under a Shuttle when they were stacking it (attaching the rockets to it) and have walked next to it when it was being rolled to the launch pad.

Tiana, blasting off into space is the worst part of the trip. You are laying on your back and are being smashed into your seat. It feels like an elephant is sitting on your chest and it seems to take forever to get into space. Actually it only takes a couple of minutes but when you have an elephant sitting on you, it seems to take an hour.

Jacob, my most favorite thing at work is watching a Space Shuttle blast off. I have seen 2 blast offs in person (I was at Florida, close to the launch pad). Both were awesome.

David, there are 3 Space Shuttles but they were not all built at the same time so they are different. There are a lot of things that are the same but there are differences. Like the ones we built later, we built with better computers.

Daryn, I have worked at NASA for over 20 years. Can't do something that long if it's not a lot of fun!

Noel, tethers are too important here at NASA. Loosing an astronaut is not an option, so we take our tether very seriously. We have NEVER had an astronaut float off and we never will. We did have an astronaut forget to tether his tool kit and it floated away. That was a very bad day. NASA doesn't want anything that should be tethered to go floating off into space and the astronaut who lost the tool kit got in a lot of trouble. I don't think he had to pay for the tool kit he lost.

Claudia, I am not an astronaut. I just get to work with them. It is very hard work to be considered for the astronaut program. All of the astronauts have spent many years in college and have many degrees. Every year hundreds apply to NASA to become an astronaut and less than 100 are chosen. I am a wife and mother and was not able to go to college for so many years. I help the astronauts get to space by making sure the paper gets to the right place.

Noel, yes the equipment does malfunction sometimes but we always have a back-up system that we can use.

Jacob, the control panel is big because there are so many controls. A lot of the training is about those controls. So by the time an astronaut sits down at the Space Shuttle control panel, he or she knows everything about every button, light, lever, and control in front of him or her.

Brian, the pool is mostly work. Being under water in your spacesuit is the closest thing to being in space. When the astronauts are in the pool, they are practicing what they will be doing during their space walk. After they have practiced, then when they do it again the people who are teaching them tell them a problem has occurred and watch to see how the astronaut will get around the pretend problem. This helps the astronaut know his job so well, that even if he has a problem when he is in space, he will be able to complete his task.

Caitlin, yes NASA gets interupted because of weather or a malfunction on the launch pad. And Shuttles are not the only space vehicle launched from Florida. There are other rockets that are launched and NASA has to wait its turn.

Sorry, Salvador.

Tiana, I've cleaned up a lot of vomit and NONE of it is famous. Even a famous astronaut does NOT have famous vomit.

Ross, I've never been to space camp but that's because I never want to blast off into space. I'm afraid if I can't fly in the Vomit Comet without throwing up, I'd probably throw up in space and I wouldn't want to do that to my fellow astronauts. I've talked to people who have gone to space camp and they loved it!

Noel, any job at NASA is a great job. We are all part of the team that puts the astronauts into space and brings them home safely. I would say, go for the top. Be an astronaut!

This was fun! Maybe we can do it again sometime.

Carol, you have helped us to be better readers, better writers, better scientists, and better thinkers! We thank you from the bottom of our Challenger hearts! (Our school is Scobee Elementary: named in honor of Dick Scobee, Commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger.)

Do you love working at NASA?

I just watched the APOLLO PROJECT on Brainpop.

Carol, the you for spending your time answering our questions about space.

yeah Carol that ws SOOOO NICE of YOU to wnser ALL of our questions

Carol,how do they make powder food?

I just watched a brainpo about sir isaac newton

Carol, thank you for some NASAgoods! :-)

Ha Ha I alredy read it!!!