In spring of 2010, a team from UNL's College of Engineering conducted experiments with NASA's Microgravity University. It was the third consecutive year a UNL team participated. NASA's Microgravity University engages students from several colleges and universities in scientific research that helps our nation's space program to refine its efforts. The teams decide their members' roles including flight preparation, participation, and follow-up reporting.

NASA's Microgravity University engages students from several colleges and universities in scientific research that helps our nation's space program to refine its efforts. The teams decide their members' roles including flight preparation, participation, and follow-up reporting.

Jack Mondry, a senior from Orlando, Fla., who majors in mechanical engineering, led one of the 2009 Husker teams. He was notified by NASA in December 2008 that his team, ""Pow'RED Up,"" would evaluate the airlock where astronauts put on and take off protective suits for lunar exploration.

Brett Schlueter, a senior from Hastings who majors in mechanical engineering, led the other UNL team (named ""FAST""). The team was assigned by NASA to analyze the properties of lunar soil.

The teams' advisers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering were professor George Gogos and assistant professor Carl Nelson.

Nebraska's expanded presence in Microgravity this year also included Elena Hoff, at the time a Lincoln Southeast High School senior. Hoff, who was accepted as a UNL freshman for fall 2009, worked with Team FAST.

In 2008, the first team of UNL undergraduates participated in Microgravity U. They tested Radio Frequency Identification tags and monitors for NASA mission cargo in zero- and reduced-gravity conditions during flights on a specially-equipped C-9 aircraft.