Pictured from left to right: Hope Hesterly, Piper Fain, Alexis Bryant & Lexi Betts, ninth grade students at Camden-Fairview High School whose student experiment is headed into orbit in 2017. (Photo: KATV) <\/p>\n
A science experiment made by ninth graders at the Camden Fairview School District is taking a trip to space. <\/p>\n
The Camden Fairview \"Student Spaceflights Experiments Program\" Team traveled to the Kennedy Space Center to see their experiment lift off on the SpaceX Falcon 9 CRS-11 as it heads to the International Space Station on Saturday. The rocket, which was first scheduled to launch Thursday, will also carry the ISS resupply and science investigations. <\/p>\n
The experiment entitled, \"Testing the Formation of a Polymer in Microgravity,\" will be tested by astronauts on the International Space Station and then sent back to students for analysis. <\/p>\n
The Student Spaceflights Experiments Program had students compete to create research proposals and have those proposals vetted by a review board. Students worked in groups to develop their experiments and presented their proposals to a panel at the local level, dwindling the experiments to a select few to be chosen by the review board in Maryland.<\/p>\n
The chosen experiment was designed by Lexi Betts, Alexis Bryant, Piper Fain, Hope Hesterly and Trey Jeffus. The students' teacher was Hannah O'Dell. <\/p>\n
The program says a control experiment will be conducted on the Camden Fairview campus while astronauts perform their experiment in space according to the proposal's instructions. <\/p>\n
This is the first time a student experiment from Arkansas is going up with the Student Spaceflights Experiments Program. <\/p>\n
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