NASA invited a Colombian student delegation to its Marshall Space Flight Center base

An international delegation, led by members of the ECCI University, traveled last week to the NASA facilities, at its base Marshall Space Flight Center where he took a tour and held meetings with professionals who work every day in the development of aerospace missions.

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The logistics were led by NASA engineer Felipe Mora, who is in charge of the structural dynamic tests of this entity.

For his part, the delegation was led by teacher Tito Alberto Nuncira, team leader and research teacher of the electronic engineering program at ECCI University, together with engineer Nicolás Carvajal Restrepo, a graduate of the University from the systems engineering program and who works with the Naples security company.

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They were also accompanied by the teacher Darío Clavijo and the students Samuel Nuncira, Diego Quintero, David Quintero and Johan Encizo from the Real England School.

“It was a wonderful experience to be able to see part of the rocket that will take a citizen to the Moon on the Artemis 4 mission, the SLS rocket test platform, the Saturn 5 assembly platform, the operations center of the international space station and the vibration testing laboratories, where NASA engineers taught us the critical points to which different parts of rockets are subjected in space. “This experience is unique and greatly enriches our knowledge. NASA engineers even made us participate in a tornado drill with the entire team.”stated engineer Tito Nuncira, professor at ECCI University.

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The students, in addition to learning about and receiving training talks at NASA facilities, participated in the academic event NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge 2024, where they designed a rover, an astromobile with which they have participated for five consecutive years in this international tournament.

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