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New federal policy would hike student spacecraft costs, threatening technology education

  • Written by Jeremy Straub, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, North Dakota State University
Should schools be charged large sums to teach students about space science?NASA

There are only a handful of astronauts, but every year thousands of high school and college students get to visit space vicariously, by launching their own satellites. Students design, build and test each one, and then work with space industry professionals to get them...

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