In 1986, an experiment conceived by an Appleton high school student resulted in the first and only paper ever made in space. The experiment, flown on the space shuttle Columbia, tested if paper made ...
Leland Melvin said that flying a space shuttle was significantly less nerve-wracking than being racially profiled by the ...
APPLETON, Wis. (WBAY) - 40 years ago, an Appleton West High School student created a device that could make paper in space. There’s nothing else like it in the world, and it was created in our very ...
On Jan. 14, 1986, an experiment aboard the space shuttle Columbia made paper industry history. Fittingly, that experiment had its roots in the Fox Valley. And now, 40 years later, the public has an ...