NASA officials say they're inviting U.S. university faculty and students to a rocket-science workshop to learn how to build and launch scientific experiments.
The space agency's Wallops Island, Va., facility will host the workshop, called RockOn! It will be held June 19-24 in partnership with the Colorado and Virginia Space Grant Consortia.
"The hands-on workshop teaches participants to build experiments that fly on sounding rockets," NASA said. "During the week, participants will work together in teams of three to construct and integrate a sounding rocket payload from a kit in four days. On the fifth day of the workshop, June 24, their experiments will fly on a NASA Terrier-Orion sounding rocket expected to reach an altitude of 73 miles."
Officials said each experiment will provide valuable scientific data, analyzed as part of the student-led science and engineering research.
Approximately 100 faculty members and students participated each year in the 2008 and 2009 workshops, during which all experiments were successfully completed on time, launched and recovered, NASA said.
Registration forms, which will be accepted through March 22, and more information are available at
http://spacegrant.colorado.edu/rockon/2010/index_2010.html.
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