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Butterfly experiment goes into space
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Nov 16, 2009 Monarch and painted lady butterfly larvae rode into space Monday aboard space shuttle Atlantis in an experiment to be monitored by thousands of U.S. students. The University of Colorado at Boulder butterfly larvae educational payload was designed and built by BioServe Space Technologies, a NASA-funded center located in the university's aerospace engineering department. CU-Boulder, with the help of the K-12 students, will compare the growth and development of butterfly larvae in the weightless environment of the International Space Station with butterfly larvae being raised simultaneously in participating classrooms on Earth. The project is the fourth educational experiment to be flown by CU-Boulder aboard the space station. "One of the most exciting things about this project is that we can use the International Space Station to bring spaceflight experiments into classrooms around the country," BioServe Director Louis Stodieck said. "Our continuing goal is to inspire K-12 students around the country in science, technology, engineering and math." About 100 elementary and middle schools across the nation are to officially participate in the project, with hundreds of other schools monitoring the experiment. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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Goddard Team Develops New Carriers For ISSGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 16, 2009 In a partnership that exemplifies One NASA, engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. teamed up with engineers at NASA's Johnson and Kennedy Space Centers to design, build, and test five new ExPRESS Logistics Carriers, or ELCs, which will be delivered to the International Space Station. "ExPRESS" stands for Expedite the Processing of Experiments to the Space Station ... read more |
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