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March 5, 2003 ALAMOGORDO 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. Read’s parents are David and Barbara Read from Alamogordo. ### |
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Alamogordo
native Doug Reed (third 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.