NASA, PBS Program Partners with Virginia Schools to Produce Television Series.

Byline: Miriam Stawowy

Sep. 23--HAMPTON, Va.--A foot-long microphone loomed over the heads of Asbury Elementary School fourth-graders, capturing their oohs and aahs. A camera videotaped the students' wide eyes as they watched a stream of water shoot up into the sky from a firetruck's hose.

"Wow," "cool" and "yeah," the students said, standing in their schoolyard.

The scene was part of the taping of "The NASA `Why?' Files," a PBS educational show. This episode will air in February to an audience of two million elementary pupils around the country.

Two Asbury teachers helped write the script for the show titled "The Case of the Electrical…