Earlier this year, Ocean City High School juniors Abigail Craige and Alexia Schmidt and sophomore Madison Morgan found out that their experiment involving brine shrimp was selected to go into outer space.
The launch was scheduled Wednesday night.
Watch the launch here: http://bit.ly/2GsQiST
The experiment tests the effect of microgravity on the gender and hatch rate of brine shrimp, which can potentially be used as a sustainable food source in space, according to a press release. To follow the experiment go to: http://bit.ly/2Sx7Vpn
