Richard completed a series of webcasts for students about his training in Star City, Russia, his Earth Photography activities, the science challenges and Challenger Center webcasted his live downlinks from space.
PREVIOUS WEBCASTS
Live Downlinks from the International Space Station with Richard Garriott
Video Downlink, Monday, October 20th
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Amateur Radio Downlinks
Thursday, October 16 - Entire Broadcast (Firewall Friendly)
Thursday, October 16th - Part 1 (YouTube)
Thursday, October 16th - Part 2 (YouTube)
Friday, October 17th - Entire Broadcast
WEBCAST WITH RICHARD GARRIOTT & SOYEON YI
August 2008
The Korean astronaut Soyeon Yi, a nanotechnology engineer from Seoul, completed a series of experiments and educational events for her country while she was onboard the ISS this past April flying under a commercial agreement between Russia and South Korea. In these webcasts she taught Richard about her experiences and the demonstrations she performed in space.
View August 2008 Webcast # 1 (August 13, 2008)
View August 2008 Webcast # 2 (August 20, 2008)
SPORTS IN SPACE
July 2008
Richard Garriott, the next civilian to visit the International Space Station, teams up with former NFL player and four time pro bowler, Ken Harvey and Challenger Center to discuss how future athletes will play sports in space. Asking students questions such as "What happens when you block an opponent on Mars, leap for a reception on the Moon, or throw a tight spiral on the space station?”
View July 2008 Webcast
EARTH PHOTOGRAPHY
May 2008
When Richard Garriott is in space, he plans to take photographs of the Earth, many of which will replicate some of the photographs his father, astronaut Dr. Owen Garriott took 35 years ago on Skylab. Looking at astronaut photography over time, we can see changes that have happened on Earth over the last generation. We can use this information to see how humans have impacted different regions on the planet over time and to make predictions about what may occur in the future. This webcast features Soyeon Yi, the Korean astronaut and is only available on YouTube.
View May 2008 Webcast
MEET PRIVATE SPACE EXPLORER RICHARD GARRIOTT
April 2008
Richard Garriott, private space explorer and son of NASA Skylab Astronaut Owen Garriott first interactive live webcast with students and teachers discussing his upcoming flight to the International Space Station (ISS), scheduled for October 2008. Ricahrd discusses his educational program, art project, science experiemnts and Earth photography activity.
View April 2008 Webcast
View Student Submitted Questions for April Webcast
Students can submit a video question or a regular text question for Mr. Garriott. If a question is chosen Mr. Garriott will prepare an answer for it during the event. We will post some of our student’s videos to our YouTube site, and some will be selected to be a part of the webcast. Note: If you submit a question below, you will automatically be registered. Only registered users will be able to ask questions live of Mr. Garriott. Guests who join on the day of the event will be able to watch the event.
Interested sponsors for this activity, please contact Shannon Rush at srush@challenger.org. Sponsors will be acknowledged on our website and the broadcasted webcast.








