Aerospace Team Online brings you into flight simulators and wind tunnels to see NASA employees doing aerodynamic design research. You will hear from the engineers, technicians, mechanics and designers working to make tomorrow's planes safer, more efficient, quieter, and faster. We'll look over their shoulders as these folks operate flight simulations, prepare models for wind tunnel tests, run tests, analyze data, compute fluid dynamic models and more. The project will focus on research and tests being done at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.

The Aerospace Team Online website includes:

* biographies of NASA experts and stories about their work days
* several chats per month
* an e-mail service in which individual questions get answered
* audio/video programs over the Internet
* lesson plans and student activities
* collaborative activities in which kids work with one another
* areas for students to publish on NASA's Web
* background and photo sections
* places where teachers can meet one another

This project provides lots of opportunities to interact with these enthusiastic people. We encourage email questions and host frequent live network events with Webcast and WebChats. A Teacher discussion list is available to encourage educators to share ideas and support one another.

Student-to-student interactions will be facilitated through collaborative projects. Finally, an area on the Web will be reserved to display student work relating to aerodynamics.

We hope that Aerospace Team Online will prove to be an exciting learning resource for you and your students. So fasten your seat belts! And prepare for a great flight.