The
Space Shuttle

...is central to space research at Utah State University. Research scientists in the Center for Atmospheric and Space Science have flown many experiments on it, as have engineers for the Space Dynamics Laboratory.

However, more significant is the student experiments flown on the space shuttle in the Get Away Special (GAS) Program.

At Utah State University, the Gas program was initiated in 1979 when Dr. Gilbert Moore purchased the first GAS payload reservation from NASA and donated it to USU. Dr. Rex Megill initiated a high school/undergraduate program at USU under the auspices of CASS to enable students to build experiments for space. Dr. Rex Megill passed on the GAS faculty/mentor responsibility to Dr. Kent Miller, from whom Jan Sojka picked up the honor of running this program.


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