{"id":18001,"date":"2019-06-27T01:38:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T17:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ok-go-contest-winners-will-launch-their-cosmic-creations-on-blue-origin-spaceship\/"},"modified":"2019-06-27T01:38:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T17:38:03","slug":"ok-go-contest-winners-will-launch-their-cosmic-creations-on-blue-origin-spaceship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ok-go-contest-winners-will-launch-their-cosmic-creations-on-blue-origin-spaceship\/","title":{"rendered":"OK Go contest winners will launch their cosmic creations on Blue Origin spaceship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_507098\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-507098\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-507098\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/190626-okgo2-630x393.jpg\" alt=\"OK Go and contest winners\" width=\"630\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/190626-okgo2-630x393.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/190626-okgo2-768x479.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/190626-okgo2-1260x785.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/190626-okgo2.jpg 1722w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-507098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the OK Go performance-art band (at left) give the good word to one of the winning teams (shown on the screen at right) in the Art in Space contest. (OK Go via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three students are getting ready for a space experiment that will use gravity and magnetism to simulate the origin of planet Earth. Another trio plans to create a musical composition that\u2019s based on blips of cosmic radiation.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not talking about strictly scientific experiments here: These are the winning entries in an art contest set up by the performance-art rock band OK Go to fly on Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard suborbital spaceship.<\/p>\n<p>The Art in Space contest follows up on OK Go\u2019s viral \u201cUpside Down &amp; Inside Out\u201d video, which splashed paint all over the interior of an airplane during a zero-gravity parabolic airplane flight. OK Go Sandbox, the nonprofit venture established by the group in league with the University of St. Thomas\u2019 Playful Learning Lab, struck a deal with Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos\u2019 space venture to let kids do something similarly creative during the weightless phase of New Shepard\u2019s flight.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike OK Go, the winners of the contest won\u2019t be floating in zero-G. The experiments are designed to do their thing autonomously, under controlled conditions, without splattering stuff on New Shepard\u2019s nice new upholstery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were thrilled with the entries to the Art In Space contest \u2014 picking winners was so hard!\u201d OK Go lead singer Damian Kulash said in a statement on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe submissions were all so imaginative, and really exemplified the type of thinking and creativity that OK Go is always striving for in our own work,\u201d Kulash said. \u201cThe kids, especially our winners, clearly understand the truth that so many adults have lost along the way: There are no borders separating art and science \u2014 they\u2019re the same thing. It all comes from curiosity and experimentation, and creativity is really just about exercising those skills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"OK Go Sandbox Art In Space Winners Announcement\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BEWERj0HpF0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>New York City students Alexandra Slabakis, Grace Clark and Annabelle Clark won the judges\u2019 nod for a kinetic art project called \u201cDark Origin.\u201d As described by Fast Company, the experiment calls for bits of \u201cspace debris\u201d to rise up in waves and envelop a magnetized wire-art sculpture. In zero-G, the bits of debris will mix and accrete on the sculpture, mimicking Earth\u2019s formation from planetesimals.<\/p>\n<p>A trio of students from Utah \u2014 Cameron Trueblood, Blake Hullinger and Kellen Hullinger \u2014 won with their proposal for an experiment that would translate cosmic radiation readings from New Shepard\u2019s flight into a musical composition. The notes of the song would be played on musical instruments onboard the spacecraft, and recorded on video to create a sight-and-sound experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese teams will begin working with engineers, artists and educators from the Playful Learning Lab, in consultation with Blue Origin and OK Go, on flight-ready versions of their ideas,\u201d OK Go said in an Instagram posting. To keep tabs on the kids\u2019 progress, sign up for OK Go Sandbox\u2019s newsletter. The on-the-fly artworks could be launched as early as 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, another space contest for students has made a round of awards: The Base 11 Space Challenge, a rocketry competition with more than $1 million in prizes, gave out $50,000 to three Phase 1 winners on the basis of their rocket designs.<\/p>\n<p>Judges from Blue Origin, SpaceX, Reaction Research Society and the Tripoli Rocketry Association reviewed more than two dozen entries from university teams, and heard from the top five finalists at a \u201cNext Frontier Tour\u201d event at Caltech.<\/p>\n<p>Here are how the Phase 1 prizes were distributed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First place ($25,000):<\/strong> University of Michigan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Second place ($15,000):<\/strong> Concordia University.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Third place ($10,000):<\/strong> Portland State University.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Honorable mention:<\/strong> University of British Columbia, University of California at San Diego.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, two Early Adopter Dassault Syst\u00e8mes 3DExperience awards were handed out to Portland State University ($5,000) and Concordia University ($2,500).<\/p>\n<p>The top prize of $1 million will be awarded to the first student-led university team to build a liquid-fueled, single-stage rocket that reaches a height of at least 100 kilometers (62 miles). Deadline for achieving that feat is Dec. 30, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was inspired by the incredible amount of energy and passion from our future explorers,\u201d said retired NASA astronaut Leland Melvin, who spoke at the Caltech ceremony. \u201cCongratulations to the Phase 1 winners in the Base 11 Space Challenge. You\u2019ve set a high bar, but this competition is far from over, and I can\u2019t wait to see how you creatively overcome challenges in the next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_507124\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-507124\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-507124\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/190626-base11-630x418.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/190626-base11-630x418.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/190626-base11-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/190626-base11.jpg 1014w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-507124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">University of Michigan rocketeers get the traditional oversized check from Base 11 Challenge organizers and retired astronaut Leland Melvin. 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