NASA Data from Mission STS-121

Microsoft Excel

1. Open the spreadsheet of flight data from NASA mission STS-121.
2. Highlight the time and altitude columns (cells A1:B28) and select Charts>Scatter to create a chart that displays the altitude data.
3. Highlight the time and velocity columns (using CTRL/CMD) and select Charts>Scatter to create a chart that displays the velocity data.
4. Highlight the time and acceleration columns (using CTRL/CMD) and select Charts>Scatter to create a chart that displays the acceleration data.

Google Sheets

1. Open the spreadsheet of flight data from NASA mission STS-121.
2. Highlight the time and altitude columns (cells A1:B28) and select the Insert Chart icon . Select the chart recommendation that you think displays the data most effectively and click insert.
3. Highlight the time, altitude, and velocity columns (cells A1:C28) and select the Insert Chart icon . Select one of the Velocity vs. Time chart recommendations that you think displays the data most effectively and click insert.
4. Highlight the acceleration column (cells D1:D28) and select the Insert Chart icon . Select the chart recommendation that you think displays the data most effectively and click insert. (Note: Google sheets doesn’t have the ability to add the time data as labels on the x-axis. One workaround is to insert a column to the left of the acceleration column and duplicate the time data in that column.)