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Earth to Sky Calculus<\/a>, a group of middle school and high school students in Bishop, California, flew<\/p>\n

a vase of Petunias and several other science experiments to the Edge of Space to commemorate Cassini’s historic photo of Earth through the rings of Saturn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More at Petunias at the Edge of Space – Spaceweather.com Time Machine<\/a> –<\/p>\n

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Earth to Sky Calculus, a group of middle school and high school students in Bishop, California, flew a vase of Petunias and several other science experiments to the Edge of Space to commemorate Cassini’s historic photo of Earth through the rings of Saturn. More at Petunias at the Edge of Space – Spaceweather.com Time Machine … Continue reading Young students fly flowers to Near Space<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-near-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-Wl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10602,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10602","url_meta":{"origin":3617,"position":0},"title":"“Classroom Laboratory at the Edge of Space” – new book about Mini-Cubes","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Gregory Cecil\u00a0has released\u00a0his first\u00a0book,\u00a0Classroom Laboratory at the Edge of Space: Introducing the Mini-Cube Program.\u00a0 A book written for secondary public and private school STEM instructors, home schooling, and undergraduate STEM courses of study explaining how to set up their own student focused \u201cspace program\u201d utilizing the Mini-Cube Program. 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