11 Year Old's Brewery to Be Sent into Space
- 11 years ago
NASA has been looking for a way to experiment with astronauts brewing beer in space on the International Space Station. A home beer brewing system designed by eleven-year-old Michal Bodzianowski was chosen to be sent into space.
NASA has been looking for a way to experiment with astronauts brewing beer in space on the International Space Station.
A home beer brewing system designed by eleven-year-old Michal Bodzianowski was chosen to be sent into space on Orbital Science’s Cygnus spacecraft, which is anticipated to launch this December.
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education has organized the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program, or SSEP, which made it possible for students’ projects to be used by astronauts in space.
Bodzianowski’s brewery, which was designed as a school project at STEM School and Academy in Highland Ranch, Colorado consists of a six inch tube containing all the necessary ingredients for beer including hops, water, yeast and malted barley.
The beer isn’t necessarily for drinking, though.
According to Jeff Goldstein, the founder of SSEP and the director for the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education, if “it's a long-duration spaceflight and the water supply is contaminated… we can create a fermentation process that would create some level of alcohol content that could sterilize the water supply.”
There are a total of 10 other experiments to be sent into space as part of the SSEP, including a study on how microgravity affects calcium absorption in bones.
NASA has been looking for a way to experiment with astronauts brewing beer in space on the International Space Station.
A home beer brewing system designed by eleven-year-old Michal Bodzianowski was chosen to be sent into space on Orbital Science’s Cygnus spacecraft, which is anticipated to launch this December.
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education has organized the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program, or SSEP, which made it possible for students’ projects to be used by astronauts in space.
Bodzianowski’s brewery, which was designed as a school project at STEM School and Academy in Highland Ranch, Colorado consists of a six inch tube containing all the necessary ingredients for beer including hops, water, yeast and malted barley.
The beer isn’t necessarily for drinking, though.
According to Jeff Goldstein, the founder of SSEP and the director for the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education, if “it's a long-duration spaceflight and the water supply is contaminated… we can create a fermentation process that would create some level of alcohol content that could sterilize the water supply.”
There are a total of 10 other experiments to be sent into space as part of the SSEP, including a study on how microgravity affects calcium absorption in bones.