A competition for students in Grades 5 and up, in which they design an experiment that would fly in space under conditions of microgravity. Winners in local competitions are chosen to submit their designs for inclusion in a mini-laboratory on an actual low Earth orbit flight.

Concepts

critical thinking, microgravity, space, stem

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Additional Tags

21st century skills, space education, space science, spaceflight, problem solving, space experiment

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