Nancy Conrad in the news - Shooting for the Moon

• Posted by Spirit of Innovation Challenge News May 2, 2012 - Filed in Competition News - #Conrad Foundation  #Nancy Conrad  #STEM  - 831 views

  Many Foggy Bot­tom res­i­dents got a birds-eye view of the Space Shut­tle Discovery’s last flight on April 17 as it headed to the Smithsonian’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Cen­ter atop a 747.

   

  That was the shuttle’s final mis­sion after a 30-year run and it will now serve as a piece of liv­ing his­tory. For many Wash­ing­to­ni­ans it will be their first expe­ri­ence with theNASA space pro­gram, but for one Foggy Bot­tom res­i­dent outer space was a way of life for her family.

   

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