Richard Garriott, the next civilian to fly in
space, will be teaming up with Ken Harvey, former NFL player and four-time pro
bowler, to create this activity that tries to involve students in space while getting
them fit on Earth.
Space Sportilization is a series of fitness
activities that students can do on Earth and then predict what similar moves
would look like in free fall on the ISS.
Harvey stated,
"With this activity, that we call, Space Sportilization, we hope to
combine sports and space together to help students learn what science
principles are at work when we play sports. Kids will help me work on a set of
football drills that we will give to Richard Garriott to practice as he travels
among the stars."
Garriot will record a set of educational
videos while in orbit to demonstrate the basic physics of movment in free fall;
Harvey has recorded a similar set of videos to show how these same exercises
work on Earth.
See the earlier article on sports
in space for a comparison of actual and science-fictional sports in space
references; see also this Space
Sportilization video. Via SpaceRef.
(This Science Fiction in the News
story used with permission of Technovelgy.com)
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