...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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