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Damon from Americulture emailed and called today.  Americulture has set up six breeding tanks with a male and female fish in each tank so that we will have eggs to ship on Monday.  Damon also suggested that in addition to … Continue reading →

YNN (Your News Now) came to the school today to learn about the project. The clip from the interview can be found at http://capitalregion.ynn.com/content/your_news/saratoga/540036/students-prepare-science-project-for-space-launch/

The plan for the samples is to ship the water samples FedEx on Monday April 26th from Ballston Spa to a hotel in Florida. The eggs will be shipped from New Mexico on April 26th via UPS and FedEx. The … Continue reading →

We received a new batch of eggs and are using different vials to store the eggs. We are still trying out different temperatures to store the vials and have put some in closed shipping contaners. We are still trying to … Continue reading →

We found out today that the pH was off and adversely affected the eggs. We are working on how to improve the water quality. Additional water tanks have been set up. We are going to ask for another shipment of … Continue reading →

The eggs arrived today. The 5th grade classes filled vials with eggs and placed them at different temperatures. We are trying to figure out what temperature to ship the vials at.

The eggs that were shipped last week ended up going from New Mexico to Kentucky back to New Mexico then back to Kentucy and then to El Paso, Texas. They never arrived. We have requested Americulture to send us another … Continue reading →

We were supposed to recieve a shipment of eggs today to conduct some test trials.  At 12:00 pm they has still not arrived.  We soon found out that they had traveled from New Mexico to Kentucy and due to a … Continue reading →

We were informed that the NASA Johnson Space Center Toxicology Office review has been completed and that our experiment has been accepted for flight on STS-134, the historic final flight of U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavour.  The launch is currently scheduled for … Continue reading →

Based on the material list that we submitted to NCESSE/ITA we can put a maximum of 15 eggs into the bottom well of the Type 2-Prime Well.    We have until January 20thto tweak our experiment and adjust the number of … Continue reading →