Student Spaceflight Experiments Program:

The SD43 Student Spaceflight Experiments Program [SSEP] community invites all students, K-12, to participate in designing a Mission Patch. The goal is to come up with a experiment proposal that will help with future growth in space. However, the experiment must be able to fix in the small tube given from NASA. NASA will choose there top proposal and it will be taken to space. There will be two copies of the chosen experiment. The crew will take one to do in space and the other one will be done on Earth by the wining group members. Once the experiment returns from space, it will be time to see if the proposal worked and what the effects of no gravity were on the experiment. 

My Group’s Proposal:

I was in a group of four students and myself. Our proposal title is, effects of microgravity on the structure of fungus. The main concept of our proposal was based around Enoki mushrooms. We wanted to know how Enoki mushrooms would grow in space. We think this information can be helpful with future growth in space because Enoki mushrooms can be beneficial to decomposing as they are primary decomposers of animals and plants. Our Hypothesis is, Enoki mushrooms will grow taller and without specific direction when in an environment of low gravity. The end goal of our project is to examine how microgravity affects the structure of an organism.