{"419571":{"#nid":"419571","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Kevin Reilley \u0026 Richard Zappulla II to Participate in NASA\u0027s Vomit Comet","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOur congratulations to Kevin Reilley and Richard Zappulla II who have been selected for NASA\u0027s Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program (aka, the Vomit Comet)!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Ramblin\u0027 Rocketeers, a student-lead, cross-disciplinary engineering team which focuses on the development, fabrication, and testing of a reusable rocket, have been accepted into the NASA University Student Launch Initiative (USLI) 2012-2013 competition.\u0026nbsp; The USLI competition is a national collegiate NASA-sponsored rocketry competition in which universities design, build, and launch level two high-power rockets with scientific payloads to one mile in altitude.\u0026nbsp; During the academic year leading up to the April launch in Huntsville, AL, the Ramblin\u0027 Rocketeers will have to pass the Preliminary and Critical Design Reviews - as well as a Flight Readiness Review and a Launch Readiness Review before the team will be approved to launch - that will be conducted by Marshall Space Flight Center.\u0026nbsp; The Ramblin\u0027 Rocketeers are a consistently high-ranking team and last year finished in 4th place in the most competitive season to date with over 50 other colleges and universities competing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to competing in the USLI competition, the Ramblin\u0027 Rocketeers have also been selected as the first-ever team to participate in the Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program (RGEFP).\u0026nbsp; This program allows teams to fly larger-scale experiments on NASA\u0027s Vomit Comet; the Ramblin\u0027 Rocketeers will be attempting to damp slosh in microgravity using a magnetorheological fluid, a \u0022smart fluid\u0022 which changes viscosity in response to a magnetic field.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter their launch, Kevin and Richard will be required to complete a Post-Launch Assessment Review to include conclusions from their science and engineering experiments and the overall flight performance.\u0026nbsp; The Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review and Flight Readiness Review are conducted by a panel of scientists and engineers from NASA, NASA contractors and external partners.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/pdf_files\/USLIPresentation.pdf\u0022\u003ETo see Kevin \u0026amp; Richard\u0027s science proposal to NASA, click\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Kevin Reilley and Richard Zappulla II  have been selected for NASA\u0027s Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program"}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-06-30 13:01:17","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:52","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-01-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-01-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"130891","name":"Kevin Reilley"},{"id":"130901","name":"Richard Zappulla"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["communications@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}