{"id":16383,"date":"2017-06-01T20:59:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T19:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=16383"},"modified":"2017-06-01T20:59:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T19:59:09","slug":"nasa-space-station-experiment-nicola-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/nasa-space-station-experiment-nicola-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Space Station Experiment &#8211; Nicola Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Last year, three pupils from St. Ninian\u2019s participated in the NASA Mission Discovery Week, which is organised by the International Space School Educational Trust. During the five day mission pupils can learn:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>NASA leadership, team building and personal development skills<\/li>\n<li>Biomedical research<\/li>\n<li>How space exploration benefits life on earth<\/li>\n<li>What the space environment feels like (from those who know)<\/li>\n<li>About scientific research, experiments and innovation\u2014on earth and in space<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\u00a0Working in teams, participants develop their idea for an experiment that can be carried out in space.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nicola Martin (S4) was part of the winning team last year and their experiment &#8211; <span lang=\"en\">how to determine the growth of phosphate solubilising bacteria in microgravity &#8211;\u00a0<\/span>is being launched into space this evening.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"en\">The experiment will be launched aboard <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/email.ea.e-renfrew.sch.uk\/OWA\/redir.aspx?C=lMpP--prxUeIHNoF1h84cpgQzgOnrtQImxDpVdBewB_N33znvXmCVzUj60peKjQRffeC4sPmjrY.&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.facebook.com%2fpages%2fSpaceX%2f105652159469464%3ffref%3dmentions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span lang=\"en\">SpaceX<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"en\"> CRS-11 is headed to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/email.ea.e-renfrew.sch.uk\/OWA\/redir.aspx?C=lMpP--prxUeIHNoF1h84cpgQzgOnrtQImxDpVdBewB_N33znvXmCVzUj60peKjQRffeC4sPmjrY.&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.facebook.com%2fISS%2f%3ffref%3dmentions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span lang=\"en\">International Space Station<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"en\">! The launch is due to take place at 21:55 GMT.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/email.ea.e-renfrew.sch.uk\/OWA\/attachment.ashx?id=RgAAAADM7YRqQzYUQ5U6ZH%2f%2bj%2bUzBwDxhFfzZLcBQp4XiTLnF5GxAAAAcKrYAAAVFqOIVcHNTo3xv3MKIkxxAAAO3XWmAAAJ&amp;attcnt=1&amp;attid0=BAAAAAAA&amp;attcid0=image002.jpg%4001D2DAF9.060776B0\" alt=\"MD grup plus certicates 2\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, three pupils from St. Ninian\u2019s participated in the NASA Mission Discovery Week, which is organised by the International Space School Educational Trust. During the five day mission pupils can learn:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/nasa-space-station-experiment-nicola-martin\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3304,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16384,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16383\/revisions\/16384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}