Carthage interns expand eesearch at Johnson Space Center

Five Carthage students were selected for NASA's Mentorship and Opportunities in STEM with Academic Institutions for Community Success (MOSAICS) program: Juliana Alvarez '27, Owen Bonnett '28, Semaje Farmer '26, Skylar Farr '26, and Braedon Larsen '27. After conducting research on campus during the academic year, they've finished the yearlong opportunity at the Johnson Space Center facility in Houston.

The interns were mentored by JSC engineers and Carthage professor Kevin Crosby, who received $300,000 from the space agency to start this program. Building on a promising solution that Prof. Crosby and a collaborator from Georgia Tech submitted to win last year's NASA tank venting challenge, the team's work centers on a new in-space refueling technology that could prove useful for sustained lunar operations.

This is one of several ongoing lines of research in Carthage's well-established space sciences program. For nearly two decades, faculty and students have partnered with the space agency and leading companies to solve problems in the aerospace industry.