New NASA Online Calendar Is Totally Confusing

DUH!!!

Somehow I'm reminded of a Chinese movie from the late 80's where all the old doctors from a hospital are put into concentration camps and the medical students are 'treating' the patients wondering why the politically pure are just not up to job. What is going on here? Can't wait to find out who set who loose on an open loop job assignment with a public face.

Guys, the calendar is correct! If you try printing it face to face and bend all the papers over, the final output will show the months correctly.

Agreed, the calendar looks great at my first glance.

Anyone who has ever attempted a calendar layout knows that the image for one month is not printed on the same piece of paper as the days except for the one single sheet in the very center of the stack of paper.

The January picture is printed with the December dates, February is with November, etc. You can even tell by the mini calendar of months that the dates you see on the January page is December (it shows November and January, meaning the page you're looking at is December)

Better instructions on their site would probably be helpful, but we all know people don't read instructions anyways... so most will figure it out if they try printing it double sided and folding it in half.

Well I could understand if the dates were then consistently only a month late, but some dates show up early, some late, some by a month, but Sputnik was in October and March is (-) seven months away and Gagarin was in April and September is (+) 5 months.

Hopefully the 100,000 + hard copies they paid to have printed and mailed were checked for accuracy.

This is one of NASA's 'educational products' - as near as I can tell just about the only educational product to come out of the ISS program since their last calendar.

Keith,

I don't know what you are complaining about.

If you don't behave yourself and stop your incessant whining about NASA errors, there won't be any presents for you under that Merlinpeen bush on the 32nd of Flurmuary.

Um, didn't Apollo 8 orbit the moon on December 24, instead of January 24?

It is pretty amazing that for a program of this size, longevity, and dollar value, there are so few educational products.

I doubt most teachers would consider a calendar to be an educational product.

There should have been educational materials coming out frequently though out the life of the program,which, over 25 years, should have amounted to hundreds or at least dozens of reference materials, worksheets, books/booklets, posters, story's, etc.

But there is surprisingly little that I have found.

On the NASA ISS website there is an on-line reference guide to the station itself, but it really has no educational products associated with it. There are photographic renderings of the station and there is a guide to 'lab racks'. All of them could be used for educational purposes, but none really are educational in content. There is a space station game which does not appear to load so I cannot get to play.

The calendar no longer appears.

It is really pretty amazing that NASA and the International Program has produced so little for the students of the world with all the dollars this program has been sucking up for so long.

There is material, its just not easy to find. It can be found at http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/index.html

NASA doesn't do a good job of getting the word out to the public. That has long been Keith's lament.

I put in International Space Station as the search term, selected all grade levels, and all categories of materials. Nothing came up. It said there are no educational materials available to view.