Just a few minutes ago, we were lucky enough to hear Elon Musk speak about the International Space Station, SpaceX, and our journey to Mars!
By Rachel
Right now, Joseph and I are in the Baltimore Airport, on our way to the International Space Station Research and Development Conference (ISS R&D)! We are very excited and have our presentation ready. by Rachel
At Wallops, all of our hard work was supposed to culminate at this point. The research, proposal writing, Hurricane Goldstein, presenting, it was all for this moment: launching our experiment to the International Space Station. We traveled up to Chincoteague, VA, to watch the launch and attend all of the pre-launch events. by Rachel
Our Fluid Mixing Enclosures (FMEs) for our experiment were due in mid-September, and to prepare our samples we visited NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. What we needed exactly was to cut our 2 lb tin lead-free solder bars into 120 mm by 5 mm by 2 mm strips and solder tin lead-free solder onto a double-sided copper clad fiberglass circuit board. If you’ve never worked with lead-free solder, let me tell you: that stuff is the devil. by Rachel
On July 3rd, the second day of the 2014 SSEP Conference, we made a trip down to the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) at the University of Maryland, College Park to meet with tin whisker royalty Dr. Michael Osterman, who conducts testing and simulation based failure assessment and has authored over fifteen articles about tin whiskers. (He was also the faculty advisor for Lyudmyla Panashchenko, an engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center who has been advising the Tin Whiskies since Mission 4 and is equally a queen.) |
PSA Tin WhiskiesTwo high schoolers. One college student. One experiment. One International Space Station. Millions of tin whiskers. Two rocket explosions.
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