{"id":14551,"date":"2017-06-28T14:50:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T18:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14551"},"modified":"2017-06-28T14:50:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T18:50:25","slug":"high-school-students-design-spacecraft-in-enterprise-in-space-program-sponsored-by-nss-and-spaceworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14551","title":{"rendered":"High school students design spacecraft in “Enterprise in Space” program sponsored by NSS and SpaceWorks"},"content":{"rendered":"

An announcement from the\u00a0National Space Society<\/a> (NSS):<\/p>\n

High School Students Take on Challenge to Design World’s
\nFirst Science-Fiction Inspired Spacecraft<\/strong><\/a>
\nEnterprise In Space and SpaceWorks Partner to Provide
\nthe Opportunity with ASTRO Program<\/em><\/p>\n

(Washington, DC – June 28, 2017)<\/strong> SpaceWorks Enterprises, Inc.<\/a> hosted a summer program specifically geared for high school students, challenging them to design the NSS Enterprise<\/em><\/a> spacecraft envisioned by Enterprise In Space<\/a> (EIS), a non-profit program of the National Space Society<\/a> (NSS). The students had access to numerous resources, including the expertise of SpaceWorks and EIS staff. After completion of their project, the team presented their proposed design, budget, and methods of atmospheric re-entry to SpaceWorks, EIS, teachers, and parents.<\/p>\n

The SpaceWorks program is called ASTRO, or Aerospace Summer Training & Research Opportunity<\/em>, a project-oriented experience during which participants work in teams to solve an aerospace engineering design problem. This was Team 8<\/strong>, consisting of six students, and their session started in early June.<\/p>\n

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ASTRO Team 8 with their 3D printed version of NSS Enterprise<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“ASTRO has been a wonderful way for SpaceWorks to see first-hand the potential that high school students in our community have to offer. We thoroughly enjoy working with the students and look forward each summer to the amazing ideas they come up with. Partnering with EIS for ASTRO this year has been a great experience for both us and the Team 8 students. Team 8 has been inspired by the work of EIS and they are genuinely honored to be part of the NSS Enterprise design process,” says Ashley Russ, Director of the ASTRO Program for SpaceWorks.<\/em><\/p>\n

It was a tough challenge! The NSS Enterprise<\/em> must be designed to carry a minimum of 100 student experiments, survive its launch into space aboard a rocket or space plane and its return to Earth. It must also be able to communicate results of some experiments from space as well as protect those experiments whose results can only be obtained once returned safely to Earth. Avionics, communications, structures, and all the engineering disciplines had to be considered.<\/p>\n

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