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Old April 30th 05, 09:10 AM
Jacques van Oene
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Default NASA selects student experiment to fly on Sounding rocket

Dwayne Brown April 28, 2005
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-1726)

Rebecca Hudson
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia
(Phone: 757/824-1579)

RELEASE: 05-110

NASA SELECTS STUDENT EXPERIMENTS TO FLY ON SOUNDING ROCKET

NASA has selected students from nine schools around the country to
prepare and fly their experiments on a NASA sounding rocket.

During the next four weeks students and their teachers will work with
engineers and technicians from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Wallops
Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va., to prepare their experiments for
flight. The student experiments will be flown on a NASA suborbital Orion
sounding rocket on June 8.

The students will study the effects of the flight environment, such as
radiation and high gravitational forces, on a variety of materials as the
rocket flies to an altitude more than 25 miles above Earth. In addition,
atmospheric and solar experiments will be conducted.

"Sounding rockets provide the opportunity for students to fully experience
the thrill of developing their own experiment and have hands-on involvement
in a NASA rocket project," said Phil Eberspeaker, chief of the Sounding
Rocket Program Office at Wallops. "We hope this experience shows them the
cool stuff NASA does and that they will want to come be a part of the team
as we explore the universe," he added.

The nine teams were competitively selected to participate in the national
program. Four of the teams were selected as part of the NASA Student
Involvement Program (NSIP) while the other five were selected as part of the
FreeSPACE program.

The NSIP program is a national program of six investigations and design
challenges for grades K-12 that link students directly with NASA's exciting
missions of exploration and discovery.

The FreeSPACE project offers students an opportunity to fly secondary
experiments on NASA Sounding Rocket Program missions. The five schools
participating in the FreeSPACE project were selected through the NASA
Explorer Schools program.

The schools represent 5 of the 100 NASA Explorer Schools in the program at
the present time. The schools partner with NASA over a three-year period to
increase student interest, performance and participation in science,
mathematics, and technology fields of study and careers.

Approximately 35 NSIP and FreeSPACE students will spend the launch week
participating in the final preparations of the experiments and launch
reviews, receive instruction in rocketry, view the launch of the rocket, and
begin analysis of their data.

The winning entrees in the NSIP flight opportunities competition a

North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham, N.C.
Columbus High School, Columbus, Ga.
Susan E. Wagner High School, Staten Island, N.Y.
Glenbrook North High School, Northbrook, Ill.


The FreeSPACE schools a

Greencastle-Antrim High School, Greencastle, Pa.
North Ridge Elementary School, Moreno Valley, Calif.
Key Peninsula Middle School, Lakebay, Wash.
Waimea Middle School, Kamuela, Hawaii
Wendover High School, Wendover, Utah


For information about NASA education programs on the Internet, visit:

http://education.nasa.gov

For information about NASA on the Internet, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

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