LIVE FROM THE EDGE OF SPACE AND TIME
Host / narrator
KURT WILLIAMS
Written and produced by
GEOFF HAINES-STILES
Directed by
DWIGHT PHILLIPS
Videographer / Editor
BRIAN IGELMAN
Student host
CHRIS CLEARFIELD
NC School of Science and Math
P2K Online Moderator/
Website Development
EILEEN BENDIXSEN
Executive in Charge
ERNA AKUGINOW
Hawaii footage courtesy
Patty Miller, KidScience
University of Hawaii
Science contributors (pre-taped)
Alan Dressler
Carnegie Observatories
Andrea Ghez
UCLA
Maria Spiropulu
Michael S. Turner
Fermilab / Univ. of Chicago
Post-production graphics
BRIAN IGELMAN
Curriculum Support Materials & Activities
Lynn Cominsky & Laura Whitlock
Sonoma State University
&
Lindsay Clark
Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, & MAP Mission, NASA
GRAVITY AND BLACK HOLES / ASTRONOMY CONNECTIONS
materials developed by:
Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum
Chicago, IL
Geri Smith, Lead Educator
Lindsay Clark, Educator
Bridget Basta, Assistant Educator
Dr. Geza Gyuk, Astronomer
Bryan Wunar, Director of Education
Dr. Paul Knappenberger, President
Sponsored by:
NASA Office of Space Science
National Science Foundation
State of Illinois, Department of Natural Resources
WGN-TV Children’s Charities
Frame-dragging Activity
Shannon K’doah Range & Jennifer Mullins
Gravity Probe B, Stanford University
MAP Teacher’s Guide Activities
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov
Lindsay Clark, Education/Outreach Coordinator
Microwave Anisotropy Probe
Goddard Space Flight Center, Princeton University,
UCLA, Chicago, UBC, Brown, NRAO
Uplink Production Services
Chandra Operations Control Center
Cambridge, MA
MASS INTERACTION
Uplink support
Suzanne Kembel, KNME
Nick Agresti, PBS
Special Thanks
Alan Bunner, Theme Director
Structure and Evolution of the Universe
&
Jeffrey D. Rosendhal, AAA Education and Outreach
Office of Space Science, NASA HQ
Kathy Lestition
&
Harvey Tananbaum
Kimberly Kowal
Megan Watzke
Chandra X-ray Center
Roger Brissenden, Bruce Roberts & the staff of the
Chandra Operations Control Center
Darell Wicker
&
Edward Arsenault
Giusseppina Fabbiano
Christine Jones
Bill Forman
Mary Dussault & Roy Gould
SEU Education Forum
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Martin Weisskopf
Mitzi Adams & Ron Elsner
Steve Roy
Sherrie Super & Justin Jackson
Peggy Motes, Planetarium Director
Muncie Community Schools’ Planetarium
Muncie, IN
&
Students and Teachers of the Muncie Southside High School
2001 Boys Basketball Class 3A State Champions (yeah!)
NASA-TV
Raymond A. Castillo
Pat Kennedy
Stuart Wolpert, UCLA
Ginger French & Cheryl Gundy
Space Telescope Science Institute
Frank Owens & Malcom Phelps
Shelley Canright & Stanley Jones
NASA Education Division
James Lochner, NASA GSFC
Wade Sisler & Rachel Weintraub
Britt Griswold
NASA Goddard
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Herman B. White, Jr., Ph.D.
&
Judy Jackson
Fred Ulrich
Alan Johnson
Visual Media Services, Fermilab
&
Marjorie D. Bardeen, Susan Dahl, Education Dept.
&
Dee Hahn, CDF
Bob Mau, Beams Divn.
European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Very Large Telescope (VLT)
Dr. Richard West
Claus Madsen
Alex Griswold
Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
Tina McDowell
Carnegie Institution
Kara MacGregor, NCSA
Steven Maran, GSFC / AAS
P2K thanks:
Alex Filippenko
Riccardo Giaconni
Ann Hornschemeier
Mario Livio
Bruce Margon
Richard Mushotzky
Anneila Sargent
David Spergel
Video Streaming
CLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE
Nitin Naik & Don Watson
Additional Footage courtesy
John Dubinski, University of Toronto
Tom Quinn, University of Washington
National Center for Supercomputer Applications, NCSA
Space Telescope Science Institute
Greg Bacon & Ed Weibe
Carnegie Institution
Keck Observatory, Andrew Perala
Gemini Observatory, Peter Michaud
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
"Journey to a Black Hole"/There TV-MZKS Productions
NASA-TV
European Space Agency
European Southern Observatory
Stills courtesy
NOAO/NSF/AURA
NRAO/Very Large Array/AURA
2MASS Project
(Umass, IPAC/Caltech, NSF, NASA)
Gemini Observatory
(NSF, University of Hawaii Adaptive Optics Group)
Executive Producer
ERNA AKUGINOW
