LUMBERTON, Texas Two Lumberton High School students are set to make their mark on space travel with an experiment to test how concrete works in outer space.<\/p>\n
Dr. Nick Brake at Lamar University helped the Lucas Mason and Austin Havard research and develop the idea. Brake is an associate professor of civil engineering.<\/p>\n
\"What we want to do is see if this ultra-high performance material, it works very well down here, can also work up there as well for the purpose of colonization or building structures in space,\" Dr. Nick Brake said.<\/p>\n
Mason and Havard are participating in the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program, and the pair of young scientists beat out 375 middle school and high school students to be chosen.<\/p>\n
\"I honestly wasn't expecting it so it was a nice surprise,\" Mason said.<\/p>\n
The teens are in eleventh grade. They'll see the science experiment loaded onto a rocket ship and sent to the International Space Station. Astronauts will replicate their earthly experiments in space. <\/p>\n
Their science experiment is one of 34 from around the world that will be loaded onto the rocket ship.<\/p>\n
\"It was a great, great feeling,\" Havard said. \"It is sort of strange because we've learned all the times, we've learned about all the different trips up there and knowing we had a part of it.\"<\/p>\n
The rocket will launch in October 2020.<\/p>\n
\"It has been very, enlightening to see the process behind all this stuff. I didn't know how things like this worked before hand so I learned a lot,\" Mason said.<\/p>\n
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