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Shooting for Mars: Villanova Team Named Finalist in NASA RASC-AL Challenge
In June, the team of Villanova, Drexel and Rutgers students will be among 16 teams of graduate and undergraduate students from across the country to present their deep space mission concepts directly to NASA and aerospace industry leaders.
VILLANOVA, Pa. In its first year in the competition, a team of students from Villanova, Drexel and Rutgers universities, has been named a finalist in NASA’s Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) program. In June 2021, they will be among 16 teams of graduate and undergraduate students from across the country to present their deep space mission concepts directly to NASA and aerospace industry leaders.
The Cal Poly team, all mechanical engineering seniors from California, for the second straight year has advanced to the semifinals of a NASA challenge to develop a device to harvest water from ice on the moon and Mars that could pave the way for extended manned space missions. Top row, from left: Jacob Everest-Winkler of Santa Rosa; Rebecca Rodriguez of Buellton; project manager Michelle Leclere of Roseville; middle row: Bradley Behrens of Nipomo; Alex Martinez of Rocklin; and Tyler Guffey (in helmet) of San Bernardino; and bottom row: Dominic Duran of Woodbridge; and Schuyler Ryan of Redding.
–For the second straight year, a team of Cal Poly mechanical engineering seniors has advanced to the semifinals of a NASA challenge to develop a device to harvest water from ice on the moon and Mars that could pave the way for extended manned space missions.