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| Get-Away Special Experiments |
Students and mentors associated with the Consortium, under the leadership of Dr. Jan Sojka, have flown numerous "GAS Can" experiments under NASA's far-sighted student Outreach thrust.
A total of 14 experiments have been flown by the students associated with the Consortium. The first was in 1982 led by Rocky Mountain NASA Space Grant Director-At-Large, R. Gilbert Moore.. Students from three high schools, one in Utah and two in Idaho, researched, developed and built a get-away-special (GAS) project to be flown on STS-91. Box Elder High School's project has to do with nucleic boiling of water in a sealed container. Purifying water for space travel using a mineral, zeolite was the mineral studied by the Shoshone-Bannock students. The GAS from Moscow High School has to do with growing crystals using various chemicals. The Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 carried the fourth experiment into space on January 16, 2003.
| The success of this Consortial thrust is attested by the number of students who have participated, namely 103. One of the experiments, "Baby" to honor the late student Autumn Pratt, was the first Tribal American shuttle-carried payload, launched on Discovery (STS-91) on May 11, 1998. Many of the former GAS experiment students currently hold important project management positions in industry and government. Descriptions of the 14 GAS Can experiments associated with the students and mentors of the Consortium may be accessed through the link below. |
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