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Five Central Park Middle School students including Shannon Turnball, Alex Jurczynski, Briana Purtell, Dan Flora and Corinne Higgins took a trip to NASA's Wallops flight facility in Virginia in June.  The purpose of the trip was to watch the rocket carrying  their experiments, launch into space. 

The rocket carried the students' experiments 33 miles above the earth to measure the effect that space flight has on common liquids.  The experiment used thermochron technology to record temperature changes, radiation and exposure and force.  A thermochron is a temperature probe linked to a computer chip that is  enclosed in a stainless steel case.    The experiments were recovered and returned to the students a few hours after the rocket's launch.

The students and two Central Park teachers, Greg Rice and Danielle Hartkern enjoyed this extraordinary opportunity.  Not only did they enjoy watching their experiments launch into space, but they also spent time touring the Wallops Flight Facility.

In 2003, Central Park was named the first NASA Explorer School in New York State.  In addition to the FreeSPACE Mission and trip to Wallops, students and teachers have benefited from a number of lessons, workshops, NASA-related activities including visits from experts and scientists from Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. 
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