NSIP is a national program that links students directly with NASA's diverse missions of research, exploration and discovery.
Students have the opportunity to learn science by doing science.
We hope that the students involved in the flights see it as a positive experience and pursue careers in science and engineering. Shortly after sunrise on June 6, the students will see their experiments fly aboard a single-stage NASA Orion sounding rocket to an altitude of more than 28 miles. The experiments will descend by parachute to a water impact in the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Wallops Island, where they will be recovered and returned to the students that day for analysis. Four of the student teams will converge on Wallops during the first week of June to participate in the final activities to prepare their experiments for the sounding rocket flight. The experiments will investigate materials for future space flight vehicles, study the efficiency of electric motors during rocket flight, measure atmospheric constituents and gather data on the sounding rocket flight environment for a musical composition.