This award winning educational feature was filmed aboard the International Space Station, featuring European Space Agency astronaut Frank DeWinne of Belgium and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Bernoulli’s Principle, an episode of the educational series NASA Launchpad, was honored June 5th at the 52nd Capital Regional Emmy Awards in Washington in the Information/Instructional category.
This seven-minute presentation features a highly entertaining demonstration of fluid flows in space as well as on the Earth. Watch and you will understand why an airplane flies, or a rocket accelerates. Bernoulli’s Principle was named for the 18th Century Dutch/Swiss mathematician Daniel Bernoulli.
NASA Launchpad was developed to help high school students learn more about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the STEM topic that are so important to keeping America at the forefront of innovation.
“We’re thrilled that the Emmy judges have singled out one of NASA’s many educational video programs again this year,” said Roger Hathaway, the head of the Education Team at NASA’s Langley Research Center that oversees the NASA eClips project, which includes “NASA Launchpad.” “We try to excite students not only about the work we do at NASA, but also about science, technology, engineering and math.”