Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center

episode 284, the student built camera mount. I'm Gary Jordan, I'll be your host today.

On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, astronauts, I'll

tell you what's going on in the world of human spaceflight and more.

NASA loves working with students. Heck, that's how I got a job at NASA was starting off

as a student. But there are certain programs that allow students to work with NASA in a

different way than what I'll call your quote-unquote standard internship opportunity.

I'm talking about a program that allows students in high school to design and build hardware

that flies to the International Space Station and is used by astronauts.

On this episode, we're going to be talking about HUNCH, which is of course an acronym that

stands for high school students united with NASA to create hardware. We've discussed

the overall program on this podcast before episode 106 if you're interested in going

back. But don't worry, we'll briefly review the program on this episode. But today is

focused on a specific student experiment that recently flew to the International Space

Station aboard the SpaceX CRS-27 cargo mission. Astronauts have been looking for a tool

that would make taking beautiful photographs of Earth a lot easier. So students took

on the challenge from design to construction and testing. On this episode, we have Flight

Configuration Project Manager Mike Bennett, Design and Prototype Manager Glenn Johnson,

and from the student team who actually design and built the hardware, we have Shane Johnson.

Alright, let's learn about this student-built camera mount. Enjoy.

Mike, it's just starting to be here with us. We're going to be talking about a high school

program, but you're in college, right? That's correct. Yeah, I'm a first year.

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