Space Day and Student Signatures
in Space at Cherry Valley
Cherry Valley Elementary School was very fortunate this
year in being selected by Lockheed Martin to participate in the Student
Signatures in Space program. This project was started on Space Day,
May 22nd 1997. The project was quite simple and has proved to be exciting
for us all. We were sent a poster that all our students signed on Space
Day. We returned it to Lockheed Martin and the signatures were then flown
aboard the Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-86 which launched on September 25th.
1997. The poster is then returned to us with space flight authentication
by NASA for us to display at school. Five schools in each state where selected
for this honor and selection was based on the schools diversity in size,
cultural and ethnic composition and it's presence on the Internet indicated
by school web pages.
Space Day was celebrated on the Thursday prior to the anniversary of
President John F. Kennedy's memorable and inspiring speech
in 1961, in which he challenged America to land a man on the moon and
return him safely to Earth. At Cherry Valley we celebrated Space Day all
day with an assembly in the morning and presentations / poster signing in
the library for all classes.
Below the photos you will find some great links to Space
Day '97.
Signing Away!
Everyone got a chance to sign the poster. Quite a challenge with nearly
400 students in the school. We also learned a lot about the space missions,
tracking the Space Shuttle Atlantis and viewing live video feeds via the
Internet.
A report from our local paper
