Grade school students send research in tiny cubes into space
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🗓️ 1 August 2023
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Every year, grade school students gather at Nasa’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to send science experiments into space. Now, these experiments have to be tiny, fitting into a 6×6 centimeter cube, which can either be flown into space in a research rocket or a scientific balloon. After the cubes are brought back to Earth, the students get together to analyze their experiments and see what happened while they were floating up there for 15 or so hours. This year, hundreds of students from the U.S., Canada and Colombia were in Virginia showcasing their experiments.
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| 0:43.6 | Every year grade school students gather at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to |
| 0:49.0 | send science experiments into space. Now these experiments have to be tiny, fitting into a six |
| 0:55.6 | by six centimeter cube which can either be flown into space in a research rocket or a scientific |
| 1:02.1 | balloon. After the cubes are brought back to Earth, the students get together to analyze their |
| 1:08.0 | experiments and see what happened while they were floating up there for 15 or so hours. |
| 1:13.5 | This year hundreds of students from the US, Canada, and even Colombia were in Virginia showcasing |
| 1:20.0 | their experiments. My name is Amber, AGD Hart. I am the CEO of IEDU Inc and I'm the Director and |
| 1:27.9 | Founder of Cubes in Space. We are here in the Shinkitig Center here in town and what you're seeing |
| 1:36.1 | is we probably have 300 people that are here and we have over 150 students that are exhibiting |
| 1:43.7 | about their experiments that have flown on the sun, sounding rockets, but we also fly on |
| 1:48.0 | NASA's high altitude balloons. The opportunity there is to do some really robust science because |
| 1:52.8 | it's up for five to 15 hours. And we're looking at, okay, yes we're using space exploration or |
| 1:58.5 | space as a lab, but how can that impact what we do here on Earth? Sam Jackson, so our experiment |
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| 2:21.8 | It survives for much longer than liquid blood and is much more stable. Once we get our experiment |
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