Students from one Nassau high school are having their research experiment sent into space.

The Freeport High School's Cube-Sat Launch Project Team found out Tuesday that they will be one of five in the United States to have their experiment launched by Blu-Shift Aerospace Corporation from a sub-orbital rocket.

Their project will spend approximately six minutes under zero gravity.

Team members tell News 12 they are excited to be part of the opportunity.

"The fact that we can show that just high schools can do something this extraordinary is amazing," says Lourdes Saunders-Blake.

Once the rocket returns to Earth, students will analyze the data gathered in orbit and compare it to their experiment on Earth.