Competitively Selected Student Experiments

Predicting Heat Flow in Microgravity, to be flown on the NASA Reduced Gravity aircraft, August 2006

Life Science Experiment, to be flown on a NASA High Altitude Balloon, late 2006

Life Science Experiment on a Suborbital rocket, to be flown on a NASA Orion sub-orbital rocket in June 2006

Uncovering Sources of Magnetic Anomalies on a Suborbital Rocket, to be flown on a NASA Orion sub-orbital rocket in June 2006

Determining the Orientation of a High Altitude Balloon During the Entire Flight, Auburn University Research at Extreme Altitudes, to be flown March 2006

Life Science Experiment, Auburn University Research at Extreme Altitudes, to be flown March 2006

Long Duration Space Condition Effects on Photomechanical Film, ISS, to be launched June '06 CANCELLED DUE TO NASA BUDGET CUTS

Improving Space Communication Technology Through the Study of Induced Spacecraft Tumbling, NASA Reduced Gravity Flight -- "The Vomit Comet" (September '05)

Space Applications of a Newly Discovered Light-Reactive Film, NSIP SubSEM, Suborbital rocket launched in June '05

TRIDENT: Tardigrades, Rotifers In Different ENvironmenTs, SEM-B, NASA High Altitude Balloon Experiment, flown 2005

Microgravity Effects on Photomechanical Polyimide Film, DIME, Drop Tower Experiment at Glenn Research Center (April '05)

Space and Spacecraft Induced Magnetic Interference (suborbital rocket, flown June 2004)

Magnetic Variation with Altitude (Auburn University Balloon, 88,000ft, flown 2004)

Space Conditions’ Effect on the Life Processes of Vinegar Eels and Their Ability to Break Down Organic Waste (Shuttle Experiment, 2004)

Twenty Fours of Near Space Conditions on Organic Waste Processing Organisms (NASA Balloon, Flown 2004)

Effects of Long Duration Space Conditions on Tardigrades (International Space Station, launched Dec. 2004)

Imaging System for High Altitude Balloon System (Auburn University Balloon, 2003)

Communicating with a Tumbling satellite (suborbital rocket, flown June 2003)

Survivability of Hardy Life Forms in Space Conditions (Shuttle Experiment, 2003)

Gaseous Heat Flow in Microgravity (Carver High School, Shuttle Experiment, 2002)