Space Articles

Unlikely links between school, space & war

Russia invades Ukraine, retreats from ISS Minnehaha's annual space-station project may take new directions in future years Testing shark skin on bacteria growth, growing calcium carbonate crystals and trying to revive dried algae have all been experiments worked...

Tell Me About It – Season 1 Episode 4: Joy Reist

Tell Me About It Season 1, Episode 4: Joy Reist Host Ann Oakman interviews Chemistry teacher and International Space Station (ISS) Team Leader Joy Reist about the ISS Team's 2022 experiment.

Book a flight!

Is the commercialization of space travel worth the costs?   On July 20, 1969, over 600 million people were glued to their television sets as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. With their enormously popular lunar...

Shooting for Mars

SpaceX has partially successful launch as the company makes steps toward interplanetary travel On December 8, 2020 in Cameron County, Texas, the SpaceX Starship SN8 successfully "ascended, transitioned propellant, and performed its landing flip maneuver with precise...
ISS Update

ISS Update

Project returns to Earth after 3 months On April 6, the Minnehaha Academy International Space Station experiment...

Plants in space

Plants in space

The Plant Team of Minnehaha's ARE class is studying the effect of microgravity on phototropism; i.e. how microgravity...