Adia Bulawa holds Rocket, the Guardians of the Galaxy Character that inspired her winning idea to test a UV-activated dental glue on the ISS.
Media Credit: Image courtesy of Adia Bulawa
This week, crew members onboard the International Space Station (ISS) installed the NanoRacks module containing the Team Rocket experiment from the Guardians of the Galaxy Space Station Challenge. The ISS National Lab partnered with Marvel Entertainment for the challenge, in which students from across the U.S. submitted concepts for spaceflight experiments based on the physical characteristics of Guardians of the Galaxy characters Rocket and Groot.
The winning Team Rocket project, led by student investigator Adia Bulawa from Greenville, Tennessee, is looking at the effectiveness in microgravity of a dental glue that is activated by ultraviolet light.
Read more about the Guardians of the Galaxy Space Station Challenge and the winning student experiments in this Space Station Explorers post.
