(It's especially appropriate, I think, that the Endeavour, the only space shuttle to be named by K-12 schools, is now giving its precious shipboard space to student research projects.) It's one of several student projects-some from high school and middle school kids!-that have found their home on this mission. To be perfectly accurate, though, the project is merely being facilitated by NASA. "Studying the effects of microgravity on squid embryos." Yeah, that's got to be the coolest thing NASA has ever done. ![]() “This team, which is composed of Florida colleges and high school students and led by University of Florida PhD research scientist Jamie Foster, will connect the three tiers of education in an experiment studying the effects of microgravity on squid embryos.” But is it as cool as baby squid in space? “The Squids in Space project is a cohesive effort in which the full range of NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium supported categories work together on an experiment destined to fly on what will be the last flight of space shuttle Endeavour,” said Florida Space Grant Consortium Director Jaydeep Mukherjee. ![]() The most famous science experiment on board, of course, will be the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, which will set up shop at the ISS to measure cosmic rays, dusting for the fingerprints of dark matter and antimatter. The last flight of the space shuttle Endeavour will be both manned and squidded.
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