Students Build Space Heat Shields at UW's Teton STEM Academy
June 21, 2024
June 21, 2024
LARAMIE, Wyoming, June 21 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release:
Campers at UW's Teton STEM Academy nervously watch as a blowtorch scorches and partially burns up their heat shield. However, the egg -- substituting for an astronaut -- was unaffected and simulated surviving reentry into Earth's atmosphere. From left are Chip Kobulnicky, a professor in the UW Department of Physics and Astronomy and director of the Teton STEM Academy; Adeline Kunkel, a freshma . . .
Campers at UW's Teton STEM Academy nervously watch as a blowtorch scorches and partially burns up their heat shield. However, the egg -- substituting for an astronaut -- was unaffected and simulated surviving reentry into Earth's atmosphere. From left are Chip Kobulnicky, a professor in the UW Department of Physics and Astronomy and director of the Teton STEM Academy; Adeline Kunkel, a freshma . . .