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A student from the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind evaluates a Touch The Universe prototype tactile image of the Eagle Nebula, 2000. |
A student from the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind evaluates a Touch The Universe prototype tactile image of the Eskimo Nebula, 2000. |
![Eskimo_Nebula_Evaluation](images/photos/sm_eskimoeval.jpg) |
![Hourglass_Nebula_Evaluation](images/photos/sm_hourglass eval.jpg) |
A student from the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind evaluates a Touch The Universe prototype tactile image of the Hourglass Nebula, 2000. |
A student from the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind evaluates a Touch The Universe prototype tactile image of Jupiter. |
![Jupiter_Tactile_Image_Evaluation](images/photos/sm_jupiter eval.jpg) |
![June_2001_Meeting_AAS](images/photos/sm_juneconf.jpg) |
Noreen Grice answers questions about Touch The Universe: A NASA Braille Book of Astronomy at a press conference during the June 2001 meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Pasadena, CA. |
Standing from left to right, Ben Wentworth (teacher at the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind), Noreen Grice, Bernhard Beck-Winchatz (DePaul University). Bernhard obtained a NASA grant to fund a prototype of Touch The Universe, Noreen wrote and designed Touch The Universe, and Ben tested the tactile images for Touch The Universe. |
![Team_That_Wrote_Touch_the_Universe](images/photos/sm_teamaas2001.jpg) |
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Noreen and two young students review Touch The Universe during the publication press event in Nov. 2002 at the National Federation of the Blind, Baltimore, MD. |
Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind, speaks
at the 2002
Touch the Universe book launch. |
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![Ben_Wentworth_Tactile_Planetarium_Tents](images/photos/sm_noreenandben.jpg)
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Noreen Grice and Ben Wentworth stand inside one of Ben's tactile planetarium tents.
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