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麻豆原创 Professor Joshua Colwell and his team of physics faculty and students watched as their experiment rocketed to space aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard. 

Summer 2016
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Images Courtesy of Blue Origin

On April 2, 2016, a team of 麻豆原创 scientists made history as their experiment became the first to go to space aboard 鈥檚 New Shepard. The project, known as MEDEA and led by , examines how space dust builds up to form planets and the rings around planets. The experiment is one of several that Colwell, along with , Post Doctoral Associate Julie Brisset and a team of 麻豆原创 students, has worked on. The others include four experiments that were conducted on parabolic flights and two on the 鈥� earning the team another historic distinction: the first to partner with Blue Origin and the ISS to conduct research.

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“We want to understand how planets form and what conditions are needed to form planets 鈥� in particular, planets that could be habitable like Earth.”

鈥� Joshua Colwell, 麻豆原创 professor
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Post Doctoral Associate Julie Brisset, undergraduate students William Santos and Alexandra Yates, and Professor Joshua Colwell stand in front of the capsule that housed their experiment.
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Height reached in feet (2 miles above the K谩rm谩n line, which marks the boundary of space)
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Feet at which rocket engine was re-ignited for landing
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Minutes from liftoff to landing
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Minutes in high-quality microgravity environment
3rd
Test flight of this vehicle to space
1st
Science payload on New Shepard
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The New Shepard booster successfully completed its vertical landing.