Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Highlights CCAC Student Spaceflight Experiments
A CCAC Spaceflight Student Team from the college's Mechatronics Apprenticeship program, Digital Electronics Class. Pictured from left to right: Christopher Beaver, Peter Humphrey, Brennan Yohe, and Geordan Lubay.
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CCAC continues to make headline news as the Student Spaceflight Experiments program takes off. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently featured the story, noting that we're one of just three community colleges across the country to be selected. The article, published Oct. 5, explains that the program guarantees one of CCAC's proposed experiments will be launched into space. Student projects examine subjects like how plastics and other materials decompose in space, the growth rate of mold in space, and the effectiveness of shampoos in zero gravity environments.
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