Failure is an Option: How an Inoperative CubeSat Still Holds STEM Lessons
Failure is an Option: How an Inoperative CubeSat Still Holds STEM Lessons
In December 2015, Gabe MacPhail, a seventh grader at St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington, Virginia, travelled to Florida along with 100 other members of the school’s community to watch as the fourth Orbital-ATK Cygnus Commercial Resupply Service lifted into orbit atop an Atlas V rocket aimed toward the International Space Station.