Bioastronautics and Life Support Systems

During my sophomore year I joined a student organization called Bioastronautics and Life Support Systems at the University of Michigan. BLiSS is a research team made up of both undergraduate and graduate students working on designing, building, and testing deep-space habitat prototype technology.

In that first year, I was a member of the ICON project under Tyler Hudson, who would later become my co-lead, and eventually my predecessor. ICON is a 3D printing company that has recently received a grant to research 3D printing a lunar habitat for the Artemis mission. Our role in this was to build a suite of simulation tools to help them design and analyze their mission infrastructure. Our C# simulation receives tabulated data about a lunar region, a set of robots, local infrastructure, and a mission and simulates the robots completing this mission in the command line. In my junior and senior year, I was a project lead, designing the simulation, leading members of all experiences, and interfacing with our ICON representative.