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NASA'S LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES CHANNEL (LTC) is a multidimensional web experience. E-mail, chat rooms, audio, video, text transcription, synchronized graphics and sometimes NASA Television (NTV) are used to bring forth workshops, lectures, seminars, courses and live world events.

Both the LTC and NTV provide interactive, educational experiences and agency information for educators, students, web visitors, the general public and the news media. These interactive live programs allow viewers to electronically search the NASA centers and laboratories or any domain where scientists, astronauts and researchers are using cutting-edge aerospace technology.

The LTC makes available on the Internet interactive audio/video sessions about NASA. Students and educators get the opportunity to participate in science and outreach programs in the classroom, going behind the scenes and chatting with scientists. For more information and a full listing of exciting LTC events, visit LTC, located at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, at http://www.quest.arc.nasa.gov/ltc/index.html

NTV broadcasts various LTC special programs. Between the scheduled LTC live events, NTV provides real-time coverage of NASA activities and missions, resource video to the news media and educational programming to teachers, students and the general public.

Free to registered educational institutions, the programming has a three-hour span—Video (News) File, NASA Gallery and Educational File—starting at noon Eastern Time and reappearing three more times throughout the day. The Education File, a schedule of programming designed specifically for students and teachers, airs at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time and is replayed at 5:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m., 11:00 p.m. and 2 a.m.; it includes NASA...On the Cutting Edge, a series of live shows. The NASA Gallery is a look at the early years of NASA, as well as replays of more recent events. It airs weekdays at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time and is replayed at 4:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m., 10:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m.

NTV is broadcast on the GE-2 satellite, transponder 9C, C-band, located at 85 degrees West longitude. The frequency is 3880.0 MHz. Polarization is vertical, and audio is monaural at 6.8 MHz. To view the comprehensive NTV Education File schedule, visit http://www.hq.nasa.gov/ntv/

For more information, visit http://education.nasa.gov
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