MSFC Skylab Student Project Report

The National Science Teachers' Association (NSTA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) developed plans in 1971 to directly involve students of the United States high schools in Skylab experimentation programs. This planning evolved into the Skylab Student Project. Some 4000 students submitted experiments from which twenty five national winners were selected. Of these, eleven required special flight hardware, eight were allowed to obtain data using hardware available for professional investigations, and the remaining six were affiliated with researchers in alternate fields, since their proposals could not be accommodated due to complexity or similar incompatibility. This report traces the background of the project and emphasizes experiment performance and is considered interim in that while results and evaluations are touched upon, detailed reporting is considered the responsibility and prerogative of student investigators.