For the past few months, high school students from Caravel Academy, a private college prep school in Bear, Del., have been postulating about how low gravity would affect the fruit fly anatomy.
Then, when their project was chosen to fly aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on June 28, the students and their teacher Meredith Schwartzendruber were ecstatic.
That is until the actual launch happened.
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“It was a beautiful launch,” Schwartzendruber told Delaware Public Media. “And then watching it going to pieces, I broke down. I was devastated, heartbroken for all the students who had their experiments on board.”
The project was one of 30 on the rocket, including one other project from a Delaware high school.
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