Space Cowboys - OSU Microgravity Design Teams
Operating as usual
2022-2023 challenges have dropped. https://microgravityuniversity.jsc.nasa.gov/about-micro-g-next
If you are interested in joining the first meeting will be Monday, September 12th in Endeavor room 202 at 6:30 pm. If you are interested in being a team lead come at 6:00
There will also have a table at the CEAT student organization fair on the 7th from 5:30-6:30 so stop by and say hi.
06/07/2022
Today is testing day! You can live stream the event all day at the link below. Team PICTOR and Team LIBRA test at 1:21 pm CT and 1:34 on CT, respectively.
https://microgravityuniversity.jsc.nasa.gov/about-micro-g-next
06/07/2022
Timely!
This Is Your Alma Mater Groundbreaking innovations.
06/06/2022
Our two teams LIBRA and PICTOR have made it to Houston to start test week at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab.
04/07/2022
Photos from NASA Internships's post
03/11/2022
Jay has been a mentor to our teams in the past. Great to see his story and how he gives back!
As a former NASA intern, Jay Estes experienced the impact of mentorship firsthand. He joined NASA full-time after graduating from the The University of Oklahoma and hasn’t looked back since.
Jay’s work and contributions have greatly impacted the agency over the past 35 years. He currently serves as a facility lead integrator for the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, helping NASA move towards the goal of reaching Mars and with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
“I've enjoyed being a mentor, and my years in the co-op (internship) program were very good for me. I hope to return the favor to other young folks. I really enjoy interacting with the younger engineers and learn a lot by trying to teach them parts of my job,” Jay said.
📣 NASA mentors are making students' dreams come true and paving the way for the next generation of explorers. 1 week until applications for summer internships close! Explore internship openings at https://go.nasa.gov/3sR54eW.
12/25/2021
12/12/2021
12/11/2021
You can watch the selection of the OSU Space Cowboys' teams here for this year's Micro-g NExT competition - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UWuVC0DqOg
NASA’s 2022 Micro-g NExT Challenge Selection Show 2022 Micro-g NExT Challenge Selection Show. Student teams across the nation are selected to contribute innovative solutions for lunar spacewalks as part of N...
12/11/2021
Congratulations to the LIBRA and PICTOR teams for selection for the 2022 Micro-G NExT challenge! The teams will be working with NASA on the their designs in the spring and travel to the Johnson Space Center to demonstrate their effectiveness in NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. Go Pokes!
Special shout out to OSU graduate and NASA Mission Controller Reid Williams for making the announcement!
11/18/2021
Congratulations to two of our Micro-G leads, Alexis Vances and Collin Thornton, on selection as Seniors of Significance!
Ten College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology students selected as OSU Seniors of Significance - Oklahoma State University Ten College Engineering, Architecture, and Technology students have been selected as Oklahoma State University Seniors of Significance for the 2021-2022 academic year by the OSU Alumni Association.
10/12/2021
Photos from Unmanned Systems Research Institute's post
10/12/2021
Photos from Unmanned Systems Research Institute's post
10/10/2021
Space Cowboys team members participating at Tinkertober!
06/15/2021
Tomorrow Morning (6/15/21) at 9:05 AM CST, the OSU Micro-g NExT AQUILA Team will be remotely testing their Quick Release Device in the NBL!!
Tune in at https://video.ibm.com/channel/nasa-jsc to watch them test live, and support other collegiate teams by tuning in throughout the day!
05/29/2021
Former Administrator Bridenstine toured the lab and met with the OSU VELA team participating in this year’s SAVER challenge.
We had the pleasure of getting to show Excelsior and our many great student projects off to former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Here we are pictured with our astronaut in residence, Andy!
05/27/2021
More updates from the VELA team! Custom PCB is complete along with a photo of some testing in the kiddie pool today.
05/23/2021
The VELA SAVER team just put on a new coat of paint! Pictured is the team with the boat while they wait for the marine sealant to dry. Recently we had to say goodbye to two team members; good luck to Collin Thornton and Kelly Lewis with your summer projects!
05/20/2021
The teams have been hard at work finishing their systems for the upcoming shipment to NASA!
05/18/2021
Here's more progress from the OSU VELA team on the hull!
05/14/2021
The VELA SAVER team hard at work completing their hull with help from Ben Loh. The team also received materials from Oklahoma Space Grant Director Dr. Andy Arena.
05/14/2021
Yesterday the Micro-G VELA team presented to high school students at the Francis Tuttle Engineering Academy about Micro-G. Thanks to Francis Tuttle Technology Center for having us!
04/22/2021
Check out this highlight in the April 2021 edition of the attached Micro-g NExT Monthly Newsletter! This year's team lead for VELA, Collin Thornton, is also a Barry Goldwater Scholarship recipient for this year!
04/19/2021
Today the VELA team assembled the power distribution box for the boat! It's still a tad messy since we're still installing things. The team is also working on 3d- printing the mount for the raspberry pi camera.
04/15/2021
Taking Flight: How Girls Can Grow up to Be Engineers – Chart Your Course Webinar | NASA/JPL Edu In this three-part series of live webinars, meet some female engineers working on the Mars helicopter at NASA/JPL, who will explain how they got their start, share useful tips, and take audience questions.
04/12/2021
The Micro - G Next VELA team has begun thermoforming the hull of our boat. We're working to finish construction by the 19th. Pictured above is the thermoformer we're prototyping with in the North Labs. Below are a miniature and full scale mold of the boat.
03/30/2021
Meeting tomorrow night with Dr. Cassibry on "Reaching the Stars Utilizing Fission and Fusion Power"! Click the link to join the MS Teams meeting
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03/29/2021
Congrats to Alexis and Collin! Both have served as Micro-G Next team leads.
02/23/2021
Mary Golda Ross: The First Native American Aerospace Engineer and Space Race Pioneer Mary Golda Ross spent over 30 years at Lockheed, much of it as a member of the top-secret Skunk Works program involved in cutting edge research during the early years of the space race.
02/18/2021
Perseverance nearly there - what a long, strange trip is has been.
02/13/2021
Blast from the past! If you haven't listened to Alexis Vance's 2019 podcast on her NASA journey, the upcoming blizzard is a good chance to settle in and give it a go! https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/HWHAP/pathways
Ep 86: Pathways Jonathan Abary, Pathways program manager, and Alexis Vance, Pathways intern in the crew and thermal systems division, discuss the Pathways internship program at NASA Johnson Space Center. HWHAP Episode 86.
02/12/2021
Congrats to our three teams - AQUILA, URSA, and VELA - for completing their preliminary design reviews this week. Next step, finish the detail design and start prototype construction and testing.
12/10/2020
Congratulations to the 3 OSU teams selected to advance to Phase II of the 2021 Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams (Micro-g NExT)! Teams AQUILA, VELA, and URSA will be working on their designs in the spring and test their system at the NASA Neutral Buoyancy Lab next June!
12/01/2020
Happy Monday! As the anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission approaches, we’d like to recognize Frances “Poppy” Northcutt. During the Apollo 8 mission at the age of 25 she became the first female engineer to work for NASA’s Mission Control.
Poppy and her team planned out the trajectory for Apollo 8 to return to the Earth from the Moon... and they did safely on December 27, 1968. Northcutt worked on Apollos 8, 10, 11, 12 and 13, paving the way for women working in STEM. Well done Poppy!🚀🌟
Photo: NASA
10/20/2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6K2dqCoin8
Watch NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Attempt to Capture a Sample of Asteroid Bennu Let's do this, OSIRIS-REx! Time to journey . Tune in to our live broadcast as our spacecraft descends to the surface of asteroid Bennu, touche...
10/14/2020
OSU Micro-G Next Tests at NASA Neutral Buoyancy Lab - Oklahoma State University Oklahoma State University’s College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology’s Micro-G Next Teams had equipment tested at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab (NBL) in Houston, Texas on September 16.
09/17/2020
ToNGS test video from the NBL.
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