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Proportionality: The X-Plane Generation

February 2000

Students meet NASA researchers and other professional who (a) describe the relationship between force, energy, and motion; (b) discuss how NASA's experimental X-plane is being tested to make space travel more reliable; (c) show students how proportionality and ratios are used to make scale models of spacecraft like the X-33; and (d) describe how scale models are more manageable than full-scale models when it comes to testing and retesting designs.

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