VAN HORN, TX (trfnews.i234.me) University of North Dakota Space Studies students were part of Jeff Bezo’s Blue Origin reusable launch vehicle “New Shepard” launch in Texas.
one listen from the University of North Dakota a team of University of North Dakota Space Studies student researchers called Dino knots recently assisted with the successful launch into space and recovery of a research project aboard Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Blue Origin reusable launch vehicle new Shepard the launch and recovery took place Wednesday December 11th at the West Texas launch site near Van Horn we’ve been working hard in many late night hours for the past year to bring this dream to reality said James Stoffel a und Space Studies master’s degree student and co team lead there were so many great learning opportunity challenges and talented minds from across the country with the philosophy to never give up and beat dream doers fellow und Space Studies student and Koehler encode team lead Elora bond can added a talented team came together to make this research possible together we were able to address a complex scientific questions to learn about life processes in microgravity this research supports the next steps in manned spaceflight to the moon Mars and beyond the experiment titled dinoflagellates a study of enzyme kinetics and microgravity uses bioluminescent algae called dinoflagellates to study the influence of microgravity on biochemical reactions at the cellular level the knowledge gained from the experiment will complement ongoing research efforts on the effects of microgravity on the human body specifically skeletal muscular and cardiac system which need to be better understood for long-duration manned spaceflight the und payload was part of the 2018 Ken Souza Memorial student spaceflight research competition hosted by the American Society for gravitational and Space Research which encourages student investigators who develop original research proposals in space life and physical sciences und Space Studies professor and director of human spaceflight laboratory Pablo de Leon said the Dino Knights team has achieved the rare privilege of flying and experiment with Blue Origin this has been possible thanks to the capacity enthusiasm and persistence of James stopple and Laura Barkin student leads and the entire diner not steam being it being an educational payload flown by Blue Origin as a source of pride for our department allows us to plan for other payloads for the near future our thanks also go to Ken Sousa Memorial student Space Flight Research competition and to Blue Origin for this amazing opportunity blue origins new Sheppard system is fully reusable vertical takeoff and vertical landing space vehicle new Shepards capable of carrying hundreds of pounds of payloads and up to six astronauts per flight beyond the Karman line which is 100 kilometers high or 62 miles the internationally recognized boundary of space I’m Neil Berg reporting for I news TV
UND Students Participate in Jeff Bezos’ “New Shepard” Launch
