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NASA Mission for College Students

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- Collaboration of design ideas.


- Creating the protoype in solid works, making many renditions and design changes as we test along the way.


- Video conference with NASA about testing details deadlines.


- The MK-X: a regolith core sampler rendered in solidworks.


Hello, we are Engineering Tech! We are a young engineering club founded this year at Los Medanos Community College. As our first project, we tackled NASA's Micro-G NExT competition. We put our varied educational and engineering backgrounds together to design a functional regolith coring device all within a month!
           Upon taking up the challenge we spent many months revising of our initial idea and formulating a report filled with testing parameters, safety measures, and theoretical data. After submission, we anxiously waited for months for NASA to release their selections, and to our delight, we were chosen! We thought getting there was hard, but now we have the opportunity to work with NASA on finalizing our design, build it, and actual test it at the Johnson Space Center's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory
          However, this requires a hefty amount of personal investment for testing different designs, sending them to have a machine shop manufacture all of the components, traveling to the Johnson Space Center from California, and lodging 13 members who participated for the days of testing in June. For all of us, this is our first opportunity to break into the engineering community, and potentially have a small impact on the future of asteroid exploration in 2020 in preparation to understand what makes an asteroid to be able to avoid any future catrosrophic events. As community college students of LMC, we are excited to be included in such a project along with other big name colleges such as Purdue University, Virginia Tech, Cornell University, and Columbia University who all have an extensive budget to be able to assist anything they need already.
          Any amount helps us get closer to achieving our dreams and furthering our design. Most of our team attends community college because we couldn't initially afford a 4-year university; without any outside assistance most of our group wouldn't be able to pay for travel and miss out on the experience that we worked so hard for.

Take a look at our Facebook! , Engineering Tech Website! , Instagram! 

 

Organizer and beneficiary

Victor Shaw
Organizer
Antioch, CA
Haoran Xu
Beneficiary

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