McCallie Students Take Pictures From Space

  • Tuesday, March 10, 2015
A collection of the photos was posted to McCallie's Instagram account
A collection of the photos was posted to McCallie's Instagram account

Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Chile, and Patagonia were just a sampling of the countries and regions photographed from the International Space Station, via remote, by students in Nancy Olenchek's Honors Chemistry class at McCallie. 

Depicted in the top left picture, according to Mrs. Olenchek, is a Russian Progress M-25M, a disposable, unmanned, cargo spacecraft docked at the ISS during the mission orbits. The Progress remains docked until a new Progress is ready to arrive. Then, the old Progress is filled with junk and released to burn-up in the atmosphere. 

She writes: "Another note, is that this was a historic set of orbits, because for the first time in ISS existence, a European ATV (automated transfer vehicle) was used to deboost the ISS (decrease the orbiting altitude). To allow for this maneuver to happen, the ISS was turned 180 degrees. This deboost caused the apogee to decrease by 2.5km to allow for a 2/17 docking with Russian Progress 58 cargo craft (which was carrying 3.1 tons of supplies). Because it was an unannounced manuever, it messed up some of the planned photos... science."

Student Scene
CSCC Announces 100% Pass Rate On EMT & AEMT Exams
  • 5/21/2024

Cleveland State Community College announces the achievement of a 100 percent pass rate on the skills portion of the national registry exams by students in the Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) ... more

HCSO Hosts DARE Program Graduation At CSLA
  • 5/20/2024

Earlier this morning, Sheriff Austin Garrett, School Resource Deputy and DARE Instructor Joseph Dangler and the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office School Resource Deputy Unit, in conjunction with ... more

Southern Adventist University Sweeps Medals At SkillsUSA
Southern Adventist University Sweeps Medals At SkillsUSA
  • 5/16/2024

For the third year in a row, students from Southern Adventist University took home top honors in the SkillsUSA collegiate division state championship in Web Design and Development in April. ... more