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March 5, 2003 LAS CRUCES NATIVE TO FLY EXPERIMENT ON BOARD MICROGRAVITY KC-135
The students will investigate the effect of microgravity on physical
phenomena. This year’s experiments are an examination of the effects
of gravity on alpha particle ranges and the study of polymer spin-coating
for photolighographic semiconductor development in space. Quirk serves as a student leader for the first group of students from
Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering. Quirk’s parents are Tom and Liz of Las Cruces. |
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Las
Cruces native Thomas Quirk (second from left) is among two groups of students
from the University of New Mexico who will fly experiments on board the
microgravity KC-135 airplane at Johnson Space Center, March 13-21 and
April 10-18 after winning a national competition.