{"id":27432,"date":"2019-06-20T04:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=27432"},"modified":"2019-06-20T01:35:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T06:35:45","slug":"apsu-students-scheduled-to-send-payload-to-space-for-first-time-in-school-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2019\/06\/20\/apsu-students-scheduled-to-send-payload-to-space-for-first-time-in-school-history\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU students scheduled to send payload to space for first time in school history"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Austin Peay State University has a payload bound for space. This is a first in APSU’s 92-year history.<\/p>\n

Austin Peay State University physics professor Dr. Justin Oelgoetz made the announcement on Facebook Tuesday: \u201cAPSU\u2019s first payload bound for space just passed inspection and has been integrated into the rocket\u2019s payload stack.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Austin Peay State University students Zach Hill, left, and Zach Givens show off some of their work during Rocket Week at NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Oelgoetz and two APSU physics students \u2013 Zach Hill and Zach Givens \u2013 built the predesigned payload during Rocket Week at NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Later this week, they\u2019ll fly the experiment on a NASA Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital sounding rocket to space.<\/p>\n

The launch is scheduled for 4:30am CDT Thursday. The launch will be streamed at www.ustream.tv\/channel\/nasa-tv-wallops<\/a>. Coverage begins at 4:00am CDT.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope and intend this workshop to be the beginning of an Austin Peay space \u2018program,\u2019 not a degree but a fountain of student projects and opportunities,\u201d Oelgoetz said.<\/p>\n

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From the left are Dr. Justin Oelgoetz, Zach Hill and Zach Givens. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n

The rocket will carry 28 student experiments \u2013 including Austin Peay State University\u2019s \u2013 to nearly 73 miles altitude. The experiments will land via parachute in the Atlantic Ocean where teams will recover them. The students will begin data analysis later that day.<\/p>\n

Oelgoetz, Hill and Givens\u2019 experiment is like the others, measuring acceleration, humidity, pressure, temperature and radiation.<\/p>\n

[320left]Their efforts are part of RockOn!, a workshop that introduces through hands-on experience participants to the basics of developing a scientific payload for flight on a suborbital rocket.<\/p>\n

According to a NASA news release, after students learn the basics in RockOn!, they can participate in RockSat-C, where during the school year, they design and build a more complicated experiment for rocket flight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea is to learn so we can design our own payloads in future years,\u201d Oelgoetz said.<\/p>\n

The rocket also will carry nine RockSat-C experiments and more than 80 small cubes with experiments developed by middle and high school students.<\/p>\n

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Oelgoetz, Hill and Givens\u2019 experiment awaits inspection during Rocket Week at NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n

RockOn! is supported by the Colorado and Virginia Space Grant Consortia, NASA\u2019s Office of STEM Engagement and NASA\u2019s National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program.<\/p>\n

Austin Peay State University’s trip is supported by the Tennessee NASA Space Grant Consortium, of which APSU is a member.<\/p>\n

If any problems happen prior to the launch, officials will delay it until later in the morning or until Friday.<\/p>\n

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