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Magnetic Effects In Space
- Video Online + Tape
- Title Magnetic Effects In Space
- Released: 24/02/2011
- Length 00:14:23
- Language English
- Footage Type Documentary
- Copyright NASA
- Description
A short educational film which starts with a brief section of footage from the Skylab mission, launched in the summer of 1973 - pre-launch astronauts, brief launch footage, and examples of on-board experiments focussing on Owen Garriot's in-orbit science demonstrations. The rest of the film covers a lecture by Garriot to a class of high-school students, interspersed with film clips - astronauts float inside the Skylab module, diagram of the Earth's magnetic field, Garriot's on-board demonstration with free-floating magnets, measurement of the oscillation periods of a magnet, the effect of a magnet on a free-floating nut.
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- Length 14:22:00
- Format BETACAM
- Commercial Use No
- Producer NASA
- Executive AV Corporation, Houston