NASA Seeks University Participants for Summer Rocket Workshop

Feb. 19, 2013

Ann Marie Trotta
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1601
ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov

Keith Koehler
Wallops Flight Facility, Va.
757-824-1579
keith.a.koehler@nasa.gov

Chris Koehler
Colorado Space Grant Consortium, Boulder
303-492-3141
koehler@colorado.edu

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NASA SEEKS UNIVERSITY PARTICIPANTS FOR SUMMER ROCKET WORKSHOP

WASHINGTON -- University faculty and students interested in learning
how to build scientific experiments for spaceflight are invited to
join RockOn 2013 from June 15-20 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in
Virginia.

RockOn 2013 is an annual workshop held in partnership with the
Colorado and Virginia Space Grant Consortia. Registration is open
through May.

"Now in its sixth year, this program provides the basics on building,
testing and flying a science payload on a suborbital rocket," said
Phil Eberspeaker, chief of the sounding rocket program office at
Wallops. "This is an exciting first step for participants to gain
hands-on experience in building more complex space experiments. The
program provides students with a solid foundation on which to build a
future aerospace career."

During the program, participants will work together to build
experiment payloads to fly on a NASA sounding rocket predicted to
reach an altitude of 73 miles. The flight will take place June 20,
the last day of the workshop, weather permitting.

"The purpose of the program is to bring together university students
and instructors, and introduce them to building scientific
experiments for space flight," said Chris Koehler, director of the
Colorado Space Grant Consortium. "We really get into the basics of
building experiments, including developing circuit boards,
programming flight code and working together as a cohesive team on
space projects."

For more information and to register online, visit:

http://spacegrant.colorado.edu/rockon/2013/index_2013.html

For more information on NASA education programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/education

For more information on NASA's sounding rocket program, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/soundingrockets


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