1. User notes: –The purpose of the flight readiness review is to determine if your experiment is ready to fly. If it is not ready – it will not fly –You must have built your experiment and completed all pre-flight testing –This is an update of your proposal analysis review – start with what you submitted and add information as requested Flight Readiness Review (FRR) Student Launch Project

2. Experiment Name School Name Teacher Name Student’s Names

3. Number of Guests Who Will Attend the Launch at Spaceport America Number of teachers Number of students Number of administrations/parents/ chaperons Total number of guests

4. Mission Overview What is your mission objective? What do you expect to prove, discover, or learn from your experiment? What is your hypothesis Brief overview of underlying science/theory What other related research/experimentation has been done in the past?

5. Experiment Description Describe your experiment – What will it do What is the purpose of your experiment What kind of data will you collect How will you collect data

6. Experiment Drawing Draw the dimensions of your experiment and how it will fit onto the experiment plate. Include height, width, length, of all components See example on next page

7. ½ AVR Board G-switch Batteries Z- Accel Experiment Drawing Example Geiger Board Front ½ inch hole for wiring 3.25” 3.5” 1.5” Height Batteries 1.0” Height 2.0” Wide 1.75” Long 4.25” 3.0” Z-Accel 1.0” Height 1.75” Wide 1.0” Length G-Switch 1.5” Height 1.0” Wide 1.75” Length Standoffs (4)

8. Picture of Experiment Insert a picture of your experiment – label all parts See sample below Camera Battery Vibrating plate Data loggers Lights On switch

9. Test Plans Describe what testing you did on your payload pre-flight? What was the results for your pre-flight tests? What change did you make to your experiment based on testing If you collected data during testing include –copy of the test data –analysis of test data

10. Payload Canister Compliance State your experiment’s height in Inches (Experiment must be less than 2.0” in height) State your experiments weight in Pounds – include all components, including batteries

11. Payload Activation If you need to turn your payload on, give specific instructions on how to turn on your payload.

12. Conclusions Issues or concerns What else do you need to plan for Closing remarks

13. Submission Flight Readiness Review (FRR) Save your flight readiness review (FRR) as follows: Filename: FRR_school name_teacher name Example: FRR_LynnMS_JudyMcShannon Email to: jmcshann@nmsu.edujmcshann@nmsu.edu Date Due: February 17, 2012