Former NASA Space Station Flight Director Tomas Gonzalez-Torres was at Iowa State on Tuesday to speak to faculty about opportunities to collaborate in research with NASA. Gonzalez-Torres, a current lecturer in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State, discussed his experience at NASA and shared some ways in which faculty can get involved.
Dillyn Mumme, an Iowa State student who spent last summer at Johnson Space Center as part of an OSSI internship, spoke about his internship experience. Mumme is also part of a Make To Innovate team at Iowa State that receives funding to create a prototype of an aircraft that can operate in a martian atmosphere.
Gonzalez-Torres and Mumme will make three more stops on their Iowa tour, the next one coming on Thursday, November 9 at Drake University.