Location
Holiday Inn, Manatee Room D
Start Date
30-4-1997 1:00 PM
Description
In 1994, President Clinton of the United States (US) and President Kuchma of Ukraine signed an agreement to support joint activities in space. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Space Agency of Ukraine (NSAU) have developed a joint Space Shuttle mission which will include a Ukrainian Payload Specialist. The Collaborative Ukrainian Experiment (CUE) Mission is targeted for late 1997 and features a number of plant experiments to be carried in plant growth hardware on the Space Shuttle in the middeck. In conjunction with these experiments, an educational component called the CUE TSIPS (Teachers and Students Investigating Plants in Space) is being developed for high school classrooms to participate in the experiment by performing ground-controls. Teachers in both Ukraine and the U.S. have been trained in the protocols of the Brassica-Seed Terminal growth In Chambers (B-STIC) experiment. This experiment was developed by Dr. Mary Musgrave at Louisiana State University and designed to investigate the microgravity effects on pollination and fertilization.
Paper Session II-D - The Collaborative Ukrainian Experiment: (CUE): Opportunities for Collaboration in Science Education and Research
Holiday Inn, Manatee Room D
In 1994, President Clinton of the United States (US) and President Kuchma of Ukraine signed an agreement to support joint activities in space. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Space Agency of Ukraine (NSAU) have developed a joint Space Shuttle mission which will include a Ukrainian Payload Specialist. The Collaborative Ukrainian Experiment (CUE) Mission is targeted for late 1997 and features a number of plant experiments to be carried in plant growth hardware on the Space Shuttle in the middeck. In conjunction with these experiments, an educational component called the CUE TSIPS (Teachers and Students Investigating Plants in Space) is being developed for high school classrooms to participate in the experiment by performing ground-controls. Teachers in both Ukraine and the U.S. have been trained in the protocols of the Brassica-Seed Terminal growth In Chambers (B-STIC) experiment. This experiment was developed by Dr. Mary Musgrave at Louisiana State University and designed to investigate the microgravity effects on pollination and fertilization.
