AAE team successfully tests tool at NASA Neutral Buoyancy Lab

After winning NASA's Micro-g NExT challenge, a group of AAE undergraduate students traveled to the Johnson Space Center for testing.
Purdue's NASA NExT team designed and tested a space station hole-repair tool in NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab.
Purdue's NASA NExT team designed and tested a space station hole-repair tool in NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab.

Purdue’s NASA NExT team successfully tested a space station hole-repair tool in NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab.

The team was led by visiting professor and former NASA astronaut David Wolf and Steven Collicott, a professor at Purdue’s School of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

The team tested its device to patch micro-meteorite holes in the International Space Station at the Lab at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The team, comprised of AAE undergraduate students in Collicott’s Zero-Gravity Flight Experiment class, was able to test its tool after being selected by NASA for the 2018 Micro-g NExT challenge. Professional Neutral Buoyancy Lab divers tested the tools, and the students offered direction from the Test Conductor Room of the NBL facility. 

Publish date: May 28, 2018