The work of six students enrolled in HB's Science Research & Engineering Program was profiled on the November 13 edition of "Live on Five," a program of Cleveland's WEWS NewsChannel 5. The piece showed the girls in a lab at NASA Glenn Research Center, analyzing polymer materials that have recently returned from space.
Click here to watch the segment at newsnet5.com.
Current HB members of the PEACE (Polymer Erosion and Contamination Experiment) team are Arielle Stambler '10, Karen Inoshita '10, Aobo Guo '11, Claire Ashmead '11, Gianna Mitchell '13 and Grace Yi '13. These young women are partners with NASA researchers Kim deGroh and Bruce Banks.
The experiment calls for the preparation, analysis and cataloging of polymer materials that are launched aboard space shuttles and docked in low-earth orbit outside the International Space Station. The PEACE team has been in existence for 12 years. In that time, more than 20 HB students have worked on projects resulting in findings that could prove to be beneficial to astronauts and others. The team has launched three experiments into space, with the fourth to go up aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis on Monday, November 16, 2009.
On November 13, the materials from the third NASA/HB experiment that recently returned from orbit were opened by the PEACE team. In the coming months, these scientists will analyze the polymers and document their findings so that inferences may be made about which materials respond the best when exposed to atomic oxygen and ultraviolet radiation.
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