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Chandler Park Academy students examine results of experiment taken into space
Four Chandler Park Academy students designed an experiment involving cherry tomato seeds that was taken into space by NASA. They got the results back Jan. 20.
Photo by Brendan Losinski
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HARPER WOODS On Dec. 6, an experiment designed by four students at Chandler Park Academy in Harper Woods was taken into space by NASA as part of the 14th National Center for Earth and Space Science Education’s Student Spaceflight program.
The students got the results back Jan. 20 and were excited to talk about the experience.
“It was crazy, because when I was a kid, I never wanted to be an astronaut, and now I’m in class and we find out we won, out of everyone in the district, and that something we made would go into space,” remarked 11th grader Aaron Jackson, one of the experiment designers.
Photo provided by Christopher Trepanowski
Chandler Park Academy students have experiment taken into space
Science teacher Christopher Trepanowski, far left, helps Aaron Jackson and Waller.
Photo provided by Christopher Trepanowski
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HARPER WOODS Students at Chandler Park Academy in Harper Woods have the rare honor of an experiment they designed being blasted into space and performed by astronauts.
The experiment to test how microgravity could affect how tomatoes grow was part of the 14th National Center for Earth and Space Science Education’s Student Spaceflight program. During each flight, experiments designed by students across the United States are included on space missions where astronauts perform the experiments according to the students’ specifications.