Despite outcome, experiment aboard Endeavour positive for Shelton students

A group of high school students from Connecticut watched their experiment burn up on reentry—but the failure itself became the lesson. The Shelton students' payload, launched aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, didn't survive its return to Earth, yet NASA officials say the mission accomplished exactly what it set out to do: give teenagers real stakes in space research and the resilience to learn from setbacks that professional scientists face every day.

CTPost·Jun 24