Marking an inaugural year for Go For Launch!, the winning experiment from the Deerfield, Illinois, program, is the first to launch to the international space station.
Team “DASA” will have their experiment sent to the International Space Station (ISS) on SpaceX Commercial Resupply Services —12 (CRS-12) on August 14 at approximately 12:31 PM EST. Higher Orbits Go For Launch! provided students access to former astronauts, former ISS and Space Shuttle controllers, astronaut instructors, scientists and engineers, as they gained insight into the types of research investigations possible in microgravity.