What did we do?

With our teacher's help, we developed an experiment that we sent to NASA's Small Shuttle Payloads Project. Our project was chosen to participate in a shuttle mission. We gathered some coconuts and separated them into five parts: the outer husk, the inner husk, the shell, the meat and the milk. NASA gave us some vials. We put small samples of each of the five coconut parts into individual vials, measured how heavy each one was and wrote down what they looked like. Then, we loaded them up and sent them off to the Kennedy Space Center to go on the shuttle mission. Once the shuttle returned to Earth, we got the vials back, weighed them again and looked for changes in their appearance. more...