Friday, December 22, 2017

Colorado Middle School's Payload Launched Into Near Space By Blue Origin

Among one of the payloads launched into space and back by Blue Origin, the commercial space rocket firm owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, on December 12th, was a combined science-and-art project from Castle Pines, Colorado. According to Blue Origin, the DCS Montessori Middle School, in partnership with DreamUp, was able to launch an Arduino Nano microcontroller and sensor package, as well as a "school wide art project" as part of its recent M7 mission. That mission launched a crew capsule--populated by a crash test dummy--almost all the way to space, and back. The Colorado middle school's payload was one of 12 commercial payloads included in the rocket's test flight.