We are Going to Space! (Or rather, our experiments are)

Today Julius and I learned that our Cubes in Space proposal has been accepted, and we will be sending some Texas Prickly Pear Cactus (Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri) to space!
We will be writing this blog to document and share our Cubes in Space science project with our school and any other interested parties. I will write several pre-launch  posts with our proposal, timeline, and pre- launch preparations. After that, we wait! The sounding rocket will launch in late June, and the weather balloon will launch in August. A few weeks after each launch we will get our test cubes back, and we will attempt to revive the pieces of cactus that went into space. During the revival process we will post updates weekly. You can subscribe to our blog by email using the gadget to the right, above the authors section. Thank you for reading!

-Edith