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CLEVELAND, March 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected four high school teams of students to test their science experiments in a competition that simulates the microgravity in space. The experiments will be dropped next week into a 79-foot tower at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, so that they experience weightlessness for 2.2 seconds.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected 24 undergraduate student teams to test science experiments under microgravity conditions. The teams will fly during 2012 as part of the agency's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program (RGEFP).
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HOUSTON, Sept. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA is offering undergraduate students the opportunity to test an experiment in microgravity as part of the agency's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program. The program is accepting proposals for two different flight experiences in 2012.
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MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., May 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Bring It Back," a small and inexpensive microgravity spaceflight kit, has won the do-it-yourself technology and education space competition sponsored by NASA and MAKE Magazine.
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BLACKSBURG, Va. - Teams of students from Virginia Tech and West Virginia University have been selected to work with NASA to test science experiments under microgravity conditions.
The federal agency said this week that it selected 24 undergraduate student teams as part of its Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program. The teams will fly during 2012.
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HOUSTON, April 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA and the National Science Teachers Association, or NSTA, have selected high school teachers from Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Missouri, New York, North Carolina and Washington to fly an experiment in microgravity.
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Teachers experiment with microgravity today: A handful of local teachers will today fly from Long Beach into a microgravity environment in which they'...
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Appointments to Support Company Goals Under New Subsidiary
HOUSTON -- SPACEHAB Incorporated, (NASDAQ:SPAB), a provider of commercial space services,...
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Students in an advanced placement biology class at Shelton High School, their teachers and parents cheered Monday morning as they watched the shuttle Endeavour lift off into space for the last time.
That's because their experiment, "Development of Prokaryotic Cell Walls in a Microgravity Environment," is part of the payload.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - If the American public can't get excited over research breakthroughs in salmonella vaccines, how microgravity affects the human immune system and cosmic-particles analysis, this could be a difficult decade for supporters of NASA's manned spaceflight program.
Once space shuttle Atlantis delivers a pod of equipment and supplies to the International Space Station and returns to Earth later this week, the 13-year construction phase of the station - like the shuttle program that made it possible - will be over. The station, longer than a football field and costing an estimated $100 billion, is the shuttle program's ultimate legacy.