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NASA Google+ Hangout Focuses on College Interns Rocket ExperimentsHAMPTON, 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. 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:
To join the Hangout, visit: To watch the launch: 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 NASA Langley press releases are available automatically by sending an e-mail message to [email protected] with the word Subscribe in the subject line. You will receive an e-mail asking you to visit a link to confirm the action. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail message to [email protected] with the word "Unsubscribe" in the subject line. Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO
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