Students Send Science to Space
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Featured Articles, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Physiology, Space, Video on 12 7th, 2010 | no responses
It’s an opportunity so rare only 16 schools in the nation will participate, and one of those schools is from Jefferson County, Kentucky. As WLKY’s Monica Hardin reports, these students are taking their knowledge in science to a whole new level that’s out of this world.
Their experiment will fly aboard the last shuttle Endeavour mission, slated for April 2011. The students from Shawnee High School want to know whether the probiotic lactobacillus gg — a common good bacteria that grows in our gut — can live in microgravity, the conditions astronauts experience in outer space.
Here’s a list of the the other schools participating in the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program.
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