Wisconsin Crystal Growing Contest Winners Learn More Than Just Science!
Astronaut Andrew Feustel is photographed holding sample bags which had been documented during the ISS National Lab PCG-9 sample inspection. Photo taken in the Cupola.
Media Credit: NASA
The Wisconsin Space Crystal Mission was recently featured in the International Union of Crystallography’s latest newsletter. For the mission, the winning students of the 2017 Wisconsin Crystal Growing Competition grew crystals on the ISSInternational Space Station National Lab to test their optimized conditions for Earth-based crystallization against microgravity-based crystallization. The students had adapted their Earth-based crystallization methods for the flight project.
Learn more about the Wisconsin Space Crystal Mission in the ISS360 post “Taking Crystallization from the Classroom to the Space Station” and in the related links below.