May 8 1981
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
NASA announced that the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), chosen last summer to run a nationwide student competition to develop payloads to fly on the Shuttle, had picked from 191 semifinal entries 10 finalists to attend a conference at KSC on preparing their experiments for payload assignment.
Finalists and their teacher-advisers would view KSC preparations for Columbia's second flight, now scheduled for October; the finalists and their teachers as well as their schools would receive special medallions.
The winners and their experiments were Wendy A. Angelo of New York, use of biofeedback to help Shuttle crew members relax or sleep; Aaron K. Gillette, Florida, growth of common sponges in zero gravity; Pritchett A. Harris, Pennsylvania, simulating planetary atmosphere; Karla R. Hauersperger, North Carolina, space-travel effect on chromium in the human body; Michelle A. Issel, Connecticut, formation of crystals from supersaturated solution in weightlessness; Amy M. Kusske, California, space-travel effect on lipoprotein profiles; Dave D. Madura, Indiana, space-travel effect on human cell division; Todd E. Nelson, Minnesota, insects in zero-g; D. Scott Thomas, Pennsylvania, convection in zero-g; Daniel J. Weber, New York, effect of weightlessness on arthritis in rats. (NASA Release 81-59)
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