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Community College Students Send Radiation Experiment to International Space Station
The experiment will compare neutron-radiation readings in orbit with measurements on Earth after the launch from Kennedy Space Center.
- On Tuesday, a SpaceX Falcon rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station carrying a radiation experiment developed by three Metropolitan Community College students.
- Selected for the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program, the team from Omaha, Nebraska, designed the project to measure neutron radiation during the sun's current period of high activity.
- The pre-dawn launch created a "space jellyfish" effect from exhaust gases, which students observed firsthand during a trip to the Kennedy Space Center.
- Arriving today at the International Space Station , the experiment will remain aboard for several weeks before returning to Earth for final analysis.
- Students plan to compare space radiation data with Earth measurements. "To see that come to life and not just be like, on paper or whatever, but to actually physically be sent abroad, is amazing," said MCC student Nikoli Vanosdall.
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