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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Former astronaut Story Musgrave speaks to students and faculty from across the nation gathered at the KSC Visitor Complex for this year's NASA MarsPort Engineering Design Student Competition 2002 conference. The participants are presenting papers on engineering trade studies to design optimal configurations for a MarsPort Deployable Greenhouse for operation on the surface of Mars. Judges in the competition were from KSC, Dynamac Corporation and Florida Institute of Technology. The winning team's innovative ideas will be used by NASA to evaluate and study other engineering trade concepts. Featured at the opening ceremony were Dr. Sam Durrance, FSGC director and former astronaut, and Dr. Gary Stutte, plant scientist, Dynamac Corporation.
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KSC-02pd0661
Date Created
May 14, 2002
Center
KSC
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Location
Kennedy Space Center, FL
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