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Amy Greenhaw from Hazel Green, Ala., High School prepares a sample to fly on the International Space Station at the Structural Biology Laboratory at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Student experiments for the Space Station are sponsored by the Marshall Center and Alabama Science in Motion, a hands-on science program for high school students.

(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photo by Dennis Olive)

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Michelle Bynum, sitting left, of Douglas High School in Marshall County, Ala., loads a biological solution into a small tube with the help of Amanda Brownfield of Bob Jones High School in Madison, Ala. The samples were frozen, foreground. Amy Greenhaw, left rear, of Hazel Green, Ala., High School and Andrew Jones, at rear right, also of Bob Jones High, prepare another sample.

(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photo by Dennis Olive)

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Students from high schools in Madison County and Morgan County, Ala., load biological samples at the Structural Biology Laboratory at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photo by Dennis Olive)

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Andrew Jones of Bob Jones High School in Madison, Ala., prepares a biological sample for freezing. Jones and fellow student Amanda Brownfield will watch the Space Shuttle Atlantis launch this week at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Atlantis will carry the samples prepared by students from Alabama, California, Florida and Tennessee to the International Space Station. The students are participating in a pilot education program sponsored by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photo by Dennis Olive)

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Michelle Bynum of Douglas High School in Marshall County, Ala., prepares a biological sample for loading at the Structural Biology Laboratory at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Bynum and other Alabama students loaded samples that will be carried to the International Space Station. The students are sponsored by the Marshall Center, the Alabama Space Grant Consortium and by Alabama Science in Motion — a hands-on science program for high school students developed by the Alabama Department of Education.

(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photo by Dennis Olive)

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Amanda Brownfield, seated, of Bob Jones High School in Madison, Ala., loads a biological solution at the Structural Biology Laboratory at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Fellow Bob Jones student, Andrew Jones, and Michelle Bynum of Douglas High School in Marshall County, Ala., and other students from Alabama, Florida and Tennessee are at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., to watch the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis. The Shuttle will carry samples prepared by the students to the International Space Station.

(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Photo by Dennis Olive)

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NASA Photo #9903885: Christiane Gumera, a student at Stanton College Preparatory High School in Jacksonville, Fla., examines a biological sample while preparing it for flight aboard the International Space Station. Merle Myers of the University of California, Irvine, is freezing the samples in nitrogen. Samples prepared by Gumera and other middle and high school students will be placed on the Space Station as part of an educational program sponsored by the Microgravity Research Program Office at NASAÕs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and the University of California at Irvine.

(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photo by Steve Roy)

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NASA Photo #9903884. Chemist Anna Holmes, left, from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, teaches NaLonda Moorer, center, and Maricar Bana, both from Terry Parker High School in Jacksonville, Fla., how to prepare biological samples for flight aboard the International Space Station. The students prepared samples that astronauts will transfer from the Space Shuttle to the Space Station during the their September mission. The students participated in an educational program sponsored by NASAÕs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and the Florida Space Grant Consortium.

(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photo by Steve Roy)

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NASA Photo #9903886. Kim Nelson, left, of Sandalwood High School in Jacksonville, Fla., helps Steven Nepowada of Terry Parker High School in Jacksonville practice loading a biological sample in a thermos-like container. Middle and high school students from across America worked with researchers from NASAÕs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., as well as from universities, on experiments that are being transported to the International Space Station. The samples will crystallize while they are exposed to the microgravity or near-weightless environment inside the orbiting laboratory.

(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photo)

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NASA Photo #9904534. Teacher Andrea Reeder, left, and three of her students from Germantown, Tenn., High School prepare biological samples for flight aboard the International Space Station. Working at a laboratory at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Pedro Arrechea opens the end of a small plastic tube, while Michelle Dirks, center, inserts the biological substance into its end. Michael Legett, right, seals the end of the tube. The BellSouth Pioneers of Memphis, Tenn., are sending about 30 students to NASAÕs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, to see their samples launched into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle, which will carry the experiments to the Space Station in September. This education program is sponsored by NASAÕs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photo by Terry Leibold)

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NASA Photo #9904538. Pedro Arrechea, a student at Germantown, Tenn., High School prepares biological samples for flight aboard the International Space Station. Arrechea and other students from across America helped with the experiment as part of a pilot education program sponsored by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Several universities and the BellSouth Pioneers of Memphis, Tenn., sponsored the Germantown student experiments.

(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center photo by Terry Leibold)

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Joey Bailey, a student from Huntsville, Ala., High School, pours a biological solution into a sample tube where it will form a crystal. Numerous Alabama students participated in workshops, learning about biochemistry and crystal growth. Several Alabama students prepared experiment samples that astronauts will place inside the International Space Station in September. The student experiments were sponsored by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama A&M University in Huntsville, the University of Alabama in Huntsville, the Alabama Space Grant Consortium, and the Alabama Department of Education Science in Motion -- a program brings hands-on experiment activities to high school classrooms.

(Alabama Science in Motion photograph by Robert Fedusenko)

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