Recently the 2004 NASA Explorer School (NES) team from Mt. View Middle School in Welch, WV, traveled to the NASA Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Facility in Fairmont, WV. The visit ...

NASA’s Explorer 6 satellite was launched Aug. 7, 1959, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft’s mission was to study Earth’s magnetic fields and radiation, as well as cosmic rays, geomagnetism, ...