WATCH: A science experiment by a group of Kamloops students has finally launched. Nadia Stewart reports.
KAMLOOPS, B.C. – A group of B.C. students has finally put a science project into space after suffering a setback last year.
The project was aboard a rocket that successfully blast off from Cape Canaveral in Florida early Saturday morning.
The rocket is expected to dock at the International Space Station by Monday.
Four boys from McGowan Park Elementary School in Kamloops, B.C., designed the project to examine how a zero-gravity environment affects the growth of crystals.
“The boys believe that given past exploration in the area…the crystals formed in space will be larger, and probably a little more perfect,” says their teacher Sharmane Baerg.
They won a contest to have their experiment join 17 other student projects from across North America on a trip to the space station. Their amateur experiment was destroyed on Oct. 28 when a NASA-contracted rocket exploded in a spectacular fireball in eastern Virginia.
The students rebuilt the project and are finally celebrating the successful launch along with McGowan Park teachers on Saturday.
“It’s an amazing opportunity. It was always an amazing opportunity, whether we actually got to take it to that next level,” says Baerg.
“Certainly that’s something beyond our dreams.”
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