Two Aerospace Students Watch CubeLab Experiment Take Off!

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Two aeronautical and astronautical engineering students may be caught gazing at the sky a bit more than usual now that the International Space Station is housing an experiment that they helped "get off the ground." Graduate student Michael Snyder and junior Stephen Levine spent a considerable amount of time in the past several months working with faculty to finalize a chemical experiment that was launched aboard a Japanese space vehicle on January 22 and then docked at the International Space Station on the morning of January 27. The experiment is focused on isolating the effect of gravity on the growth of ceria nanoparticles.

“It was a surreal moment watching the launch live, knowing that an experiment I was involved in and built was up there,” Snyder said.

Levine commented, "The best part about working on the CubeLab is that I got to learn a lot more about how research is conducted and what the world of Aerospace Engineering is like beyond the classroom. Taking part in this experiment has helped open more doors for me than I ever could've imagined. I've met many different students and professors at Ohio State and The Air Force Institute of Technology that I probably never would have gotten the opportunity to meet had I not done the project."

More information about the experiment can be found at: