Sat, Nov 13, 2010
Proposals Due By December 8
NASA's "Kids in Micro-g" challenge is accepting proposals from
students in fifth through eighth grades to design a classroom
experiment that also can be performed by astronauts aboard the
International Space Station (ISS). Proposals are due by Dec. 8.
The experiments should examine the effect of weightlessness on
various subjects: liquids, solids, the law of physics and humans.
The experiments are expected to have observably different results
in microgravity than in the classroom. The apparatus for the
experiments must be constructed using materials from a special tool
kit aboard the station. The kit contains items commonly found in
classrooms for science experiments. The experiments must take 30
minutes or less to set up, run and take down.
"This is a wonderful program that gives students the opportunity
to have their experiments carried out in space by astronauts," said
Mark Severance, ISS national laboratory education projects manager
at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. "The students will
compare the results of experiments conducted in the classroom with
those conducted in the microgravity environment of the
International Space Station."
A panel of microgravity scientists, classroom teachers, NASA
education and station operations personnel will select the winner
and five runners-up. Their experiments will be performed on the
orbiting laboratory next spring. During this past summer,
astronauts performed nine student experiments aboard the space
station. NASA selected those experiments from 132 submissions.
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