Guest Blog Post by Nora Miller, mathematician and web editor:
I would like to invite you to vote for a petition about the International Space Station and the recently retired Space Shuttles. The plan to use Russian Soyuz spacecrafts to supply the station has fallen through, and it’s possible that the ISS will be shut down without ever having been put to its original purposes. I am asking the White House to bring the shuttles back until another option can be found. After you vote, please share the link with your friends. Thank you!!
Thanks for sharing this with our blog readers, Nora. Repeat visitors to this blog know of my interest in utilizing space-related topics as a great vehicle for integrating math, science and problem solving teaching opportunities in real life contexts. They are highly interesting to students. I agree that not utilizing the ISS would be a huge waste in more ways than one.