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NASA Google+ Hangout Focuses on College Interns Rocket Experiments
[October 05, 2015]

NASA Google+ Hangout Focuses on College Interns Rocket Experiments


HAMPTON, Va., Oct. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Digital Learning Network will host a Google+ Hangout on Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 1:15 p.m. EDT to discuss NASA's flight test of a modified sounding rocket motor, launch vehicle and spacecraft systems with the student interns who worked on the payload experiments.

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The flight test of the modified Black Brant sounding rocket motor and other technologies is scheduled for a suborbital mission on Wednesday, Oct. 7 between 7 and 9 p.m. EDT, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

The student Rocket and Payload Integration Development (RaPID) team supported two experiments in the payload stack from NASA's Game Changing Development (GCD) Program within the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD): the Advanced Near Net Shape experiment and the Orbital ATK LEO-1 CubeSat experiment.

Panelists for the Hangout will include representatives from GCD and the student interns:

  • Monica Hughes, NASA RaPID project manager
  • Cecilia Stoner, junior, Princeton University
  • John Mulvaney, junor, Virginia Tech
  • Tara Sprinkle, junior, University of Alabama, Huntsville
  • Wyatt Witzen, senior, North Carolina State, Raleigh
  • Peyton Young, senior, University of Virginia
  • Austin Hehir, freshman, Virginia Tech



The Hangout will be broadcast on NASA's Digital Learning Network Google+ and YouTube pages. NASA social media followers may submit questions on Google+ or Twitter @NASA_Langley in advance. Before the hangout begins, NASA Langley will open a thread on its Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/nasalarc where questions may be posted.

To join the Hangout, visit:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c5oa0dsm0fj6df73jp9bddl2528


To watch the launch:
http://m.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-tv-wallops

NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, manages the GCD program for STMD. For more information about STMD, the program, and crosscutting space technology areas of interest to NASA, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/spacetech

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