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There are many opportunities for students to get involved with NASA and space research without ever leaving Oregon!! Whatever your interest in space is, OSGC has an opportunity for you!
LaunchOregon
Have a high altitude experiment you'd like to try? Design your own experiment and build your own payload! Over 10 balloons are launched annually. Once the balloon is launched is where the fun really starts as chase teams use GPS to track the balloons across the state in hopes of recovering the payload.
Click here to learn more about LaunchOregon.
FIRST Robotics
The FIRST Robotics Competition brings together teams of professionals and high school students to competitively solve an engineering design problem in an intense arena. The competition began 10 years ago with 28 teams and today has more than 800 teams participating nationwide and internationally.
Click here to learn more about FIRST Robotics.
Reduced Gravity Flight Opportunities
The Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program provides a unique academic experience for undergraduate students to successfully propose, design, fabricate, fly and evaluate a reduced gravity experiment of their choice.
2006 Oregon Reduced Gravity Experiments
| Experiment |
Institution |
Date
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| Physics Feasibility Test of a Zero Criticality Rotating Fluidized Bed Space Reactor |
OSU/WOU |
March 16-25
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| Cohesion and Adhesion in Space of H20 |
PSU |
March 30-April 08
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| Effects of Conduit Geometry on Two-Phase Flow Regime Transition and Phase Separation. |
PSU |
March 30-April 08
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| Dual Phase Flow Through a 2-D Fixed Bed |
SOU/OIT |
July 06-15
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Click here for more details on the Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program.
Click here to visit the Western Oregon University Microgravity Flight Team Homepage
Click here to visit the Portland State University Microgravity Flight Team Homepage
Click here to visit the Oregon State University Microgravity Team Homepage
The Pine Mountain Observatory
The Pine Mountain Observatory is located 26 miles SE of Bend OR which is located in Central Oregon. It is at an elevation of 6500 feet. Telescopes of aperture 15, 24 and 32-inches are there. Pine Mountain re-opens in early April, weather permitting, for pre-arranged visits by school groups, scout groups, and other groups. The facility is operated by the University of Oregon Physics Department. In addition, a group of amateur astronomers, called the Friends of Pine Mountain Observatory, helps to operate the Summer visitors season as well is to visit classrooms during the school year as part of the Observatory's outreach program.
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