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WASHINGTON -- NASA is inviting eligible educational institutions, museums and other organizations to begin registering to screen potential space shuttle artifacts.

BEAR 3 finally launched Tuesday evening reaching an altitude of 86,394 ft. Total flight time was 2 hours and 37 minutes and landed (N 65° 14.836,00', W 147° 46.714,00') in the White Mountain Recreation Area 28 miles north of Fairbanks.

Alaska Space Grant engineering students in collaboration with the Arctic Amateur Radio Club (AARC) and researchers at the Geophysical Institute will fly a high altitude balloon to capture particulates from the eruption of Alaska's Mount Redoubt.

The Alaska Space Grant Program is no longer accepting applications for scholarships and fellowships.

We are pleased to announce that Vanessa Spencer, graduate student in Physics at UAF, has been selected by NASA as Alaska's IYA Student Ambassador. For more information about the NASA International Year of Astronomy at http://www.spacegrant.org/niya/