DocumentCode
1255991
Title
The first Get Away Special payload and how it grew
Author
Moore, R. Gilbert
Author_Institution
Dept. of Phys., Utah State Univ., Logan, UT, USA
Volume
34
Issue
1
fYear
1991
fDate
2/1/1991 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
11
Lastpage
14
Abstract
In October of 1976, NASA initiated its Get Away Special (GAS) Program to provide space flight experiment opportunities aboard the Space Shuttle for groups with limited means and little or no prior experience in the field. The author describes the project established at Utah State University (USU) in 1977 to develop and fly ten experiments in the first Get Away Special canister (G-001). That project has subsequently evolved into a multiinstitutional program, involving hundreds of university students together with dozens of aerospace and electronics companies and several government agencies
Keywords
aerospace; education; project engineering; space research; space vehicles; Get Away Special payload; NASA; Space Shuttle; USA; aerospace; education; project; space flight experiment; university students; Aerospace electronics; Aerospace engineering; Educational institutions; NASA; Payloads; Proposals; Rivers; Satellites; Space shuttles; Space technology;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Education, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9359
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/13.79872
Filename
79872
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