Today we hit a very important milestone in our project: loading bacteria into our system for the first time! We practiced our best...

Over the past week, we have been working hard to test and finalize the loading procedure for our space box. While trying to load our...

The first step of many in testing our loading procedure for Kennedy Space Center. Today marks the two-week checkpoint in our experiment...

Hello everyone! We are the two new members of the Vandal Voyagers I team: Kaitlyn Harvey, senior in Biological Engineering, and Ashley...

Team lead Hannah is being featured with a NASA's TUMBLR Answer Time as the first ever non-NASA employee contributor. Post your questions...

We have been collaborating with our machining specialist (Charles) to mill each of our structural components. The Computer Aided Design...

BID=Bacteria Introduction Device With the University of Idaho Engineering EXPO quickly approaching, our team has began prototyping the...

The University of Idaho EXPO is quickly approaching! Two weeks from today the Vandal Voyagers I team will present our experiment to a...

Bacteria experimentation has begun! An experiment aiming at analyzing bacteria stability, gas production rate, growth rate, and acid...

In the past few months our team has been searching for the best methods to polymerize our monomers of choice (TMA/CAA, TMA/SA, SBMA) on...

The time has finally come! Our Citizen Scientists completed their experiments and sent us back the data. In total we had 91 students...

Work to take the perfect progress pictures in space is well underway! Niko and I have spent the last week working to perfect the code...

We have recently completed a preliminary design of our experiment within a Computer Assisted Design (CAD) program SolidWorks! SolidWorks...

We finished and delivered our citizen science kits to our citizen scientists last week. The experiments that our citizen scientists will...

Last week was a busy one for our team of Vandals! We spent our time in between classes and homework in the lab making sheets of polymers...

After 4,250 pages, 750 stalpes, and 5 hours of work, we have finished making all 250 of our Citizen Science booklets. A pdf of the...

The work towards organizing all materials for the citizen science experiment has begun! Displayed below is a timeline of operations in...

Hello everyone! I am leading the design of our experiment so that we will meet the qualifications to send our research into space! In the...

Two pieces of aluminum were coated with one of our polymers of interest to see how well the gel layer would stay on the metal. Polymers...

Our team has been selected by NASA for funding and to send our experiment to the International Space Station (ISS). During December, our...