Student experiments take flight on Cygnus cargo craft
Monday, September 30, 2013 - 16:01
in Astronomy & Space
Dreaming big may not literally make the world go round, but it can power student curiosities to circle the globe as orbiting science investigations aboard the International Space Station. On Wednesday, Sept. 18, the private commercial space company, Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., launched its test flight Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the space station on a demonstration mission, taking the students' cargo with it.