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...Thiessen will also have experiments on the first flight of METEOR, a 27-day, unmanned recovery spacecraft, scheduled to launch on August 10 from Wallops Island, Virginia...
...Thiessen said his interest with crystals began in the fifth grade when a friend's mother showed him a NASA fact sheet on protein crystal growth in space...
...crystal grew, so did his fascination. Inthe summer of 1991, after ninth grade--he skippedeight grade--Thiessen worked with crystal lographyresearchers at the University of Alabama inBirmingham...
Since then, Thiessen has conducted more than2,500 crystal growth experiments--many of them inhis parents' kitchen...
...Thiessen gained access to the NASA flightsthrough the University of Alabama in Huntsville'sConsortium of Materials Development in Space,which oversees commercial space research...