A group of students at a small Pennsylvania high school are making an astronomical contribution in the field of space aviation.
Six students at Upper Bucks County Technical School participating in NASA's Hunch Program were tasked with assembling a ‘Tang' used to deploy cube satellites.
"Sometimes in machining you're not told everything about what it is or what it's going to do, you're more or less given a blueprint and told to make it," Cupak said. "To think about my name is going up to the International Space Station is awe-inspiring I don’t think it quite hit me until I was actually signing it like the importance of oh wow my name is going up there," Cupak said.
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