Who needs Ms. Frizzle when you’ve got the military-industrial complex in your corner? Check out what Lockheed Martin’s been up to:
Passengers aboard the Mars Experience bus are treated to an immersive virtual reality adventure. As the bus moves, it makes the students feel like they’re driving across the red planet by showing 200 square miles of its surface on the boarded-up windows… Lockheed Martin’s high-tech vehicle will tour the US to give students from different regions a chance to try it out.
Lockheed Martin has launched Generation Beyond, a first of its kind, national educational program to bring the science of space into thousands of homes and classrooms across America. The Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) program is designed to inspire the next generation of innovators, explorers, inventors and pioneers to pursue STEM careers.
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My son just had a follow up idea. “I thought of another bus: one that goes in the body” Time for a viewing of Fantastic Voyage? 🙂