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An Amazing Program:The Student LaunchInitiative ExperienceCheyenne Mountain Charter Academy(CMCA) has a group of middle school andhigh school students who returned fromthe most incredible experience of theirlives. NASA’s Student Launch Initiative isone of the rewards offered to teams whoplace among the top 20 at Team AmericaRocketry Challenge (TARC) national finals.The CMCA students placed fifth at TARC2008, so they submitted a proposal thatwas accepted by NASA. Nine months andhundreds of hours later, they launched ascience experiment nearly a mile into theclear blue Alabama sky on top of a beautiful,nine foot tall, 14 pound rocket usinga huge motor that is powered by thesame propellant NASA used in the AresI-X rocket. At Marshall Space Flight Centerin Huntsville (home of Space Camp),the CMCA students had tours of some ofNASA’s leading edge research facilities.They got to watch as propulsion engineerstested a rocket motor in which plasma (thestuff of the sun) is contained and shapedby an electromagnetic field. They were ableto hold parts of the alloy shell of the Aresvehicle and examine the revolutionary “stirwelding” process that would make the vehicle’sskin incredibly strong. Among manyother things in their packed schedule, theyalso got to speak with a Russian scientistabout a mockup of the space station designedto help ground-based techniciansprovide accurate maintenance instructionsto those in space, and they got to spenda significant amount of time inside themockup.The project made CMCA an officialvendor for NASA, and the school was oneof only 11 in the entire nation to gain entryinto the program. You can visit the team’sweb pages at http://www.cosrocs.org/htmlpages/sli.html.Kenneth was the SLI team captain andan 8th grader at CMCA; his eyes blazed ashe talked about the trip, saying, “It’s hardto pick, but I thought the coolest thing wasthe test stand tour. A few years ago, theyactually lit up Saturn V motors mounted tothese things. The stands are so huge they’rehard to comprehend. When they lit thefirst Saturn V motors, they shattered windowsup to 20 miles away. Please, I wannapush that red button.”by Jeff LaneAt the Student Launch Initiative inAlabama, the CMCA team pausesjust before launching their projectfor a photo with Homer Hickam.Left-to-right: Sara Volz, AdelaideReddish, David Flack, Jacob Pfund,Tyler Chumbley, Homer Hickam,Trenton Tulloss, mentor Jeff Lane,Kenneth Conner, mentor LloydChumbley, Nate Lane, and mentorErnie Puckett.Photo by Ann ConnerSport Rocketry MAY/JUNE 2010 11
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