November 10, 2012 <\/p>\n
Image Credit: NASA \/ Camilla SDO <\/p>\n
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[ Watch the Video: ScienceCasts: NASAs Cure for a Common Phobia ] <\/p>\n
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NASA researchers work in a variety of fields, from astrophysics to medicine. Now, they have entered a new phase of research curing the common phobia of asking stupid questions. <\/p>\n
Its a bird! Its a plane! Its a. rubber chicken in a spacesuit? <\/p>\n
Meet Camilla, NASAs newest astronaut. <\/p>\n
When confronted with an astronaut or an astrophysicist, school kids and even teachers freeze up for fear of asking silly questions. The problem is that this interferes with NASAs mission to reach out, inspire and educate. <\/p>\n
But nobodys afraid to talk to a rubber chicken, says Romeo Durscher of Stanford University, executive secretary for a fowl NASA ambassador who is taking classrooms by storm. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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