Day 1 - What a Day....We will not FAIL!

 SOOOO EXCITED TO BE HERE!!!!   Then, spent the morning listening to horror stories of things that could happen in reduced gravity.  lol.....While I understand and appreciate the information, it also kinda freaked me out.  But, the ladies and I have all decided we will all do great with no one getting sick!  We are going to stay positive! "Mind over Matter".....that is what I keep telling myself anyway.

We then got to set up and test our experiments in the hanger; with the help of Jamie. We are very excited to be here!

Look! we are on the board set to fly!

OUR EXPERIMENTS:
Here is our first experiment that Maggie, Allison and I will do on Wednesday; Inertial Balance.  How do you measure weight without gravity????  We are hoping this will give us the answer...

Each canister has a set weight in it and we put it in the cup attached to the red blade.  We then push it to the side and let go measuring to see how many times it sways back and forth in 15 seconds.

Allison in action!

Data sheet

 Now our second, Projectile Launcher.  Veronica and Amber will do this on Thursday.

 On this one we will put a large and/or small steel ball in the yellow launcher and launch it at either 30 or 0 degrees to see how each react in reduced gravity.

 

Veronica in action!

Data sheet

So, now we are ready to go!  We will definitely practice some more tomorrow and talk about our outreach items that everyone helped me decide on!  I can't wait for Day 2!  Remember.... 

"Mind over Matter".....and stay POSITIVE POSITIVE POSITIVE!  We will NOT FAIL!