""It was honestly such a huge honor to be trusted with something that will eventually be handed off to NASA. Not a lot of undergraduates, especially in South Carolina, can say they've done something of this magnitude.""
""It's a great honor for us to be part of the college's first space-based mission and also part of South Carolina's first instrument demonstration in space. Being undergraduates-and seniors about to graduate-that really puts us out there and helps people know our names in South Carolina for a big mission like this.""
Eva Godwin and Gael Gonzalez, astrophysics majors at the College of Charleston, are sending their research instruments to the International Space Station aboard the Northrop Grumman Cygnus-24 mission. They have been involved in all phases of the project for two years, from concept to integration. This marks the college's first contribution to a space mission and is significant for South Carolina. The project includes a liquid lens-based optical camera and an ultraviolet camera to study biological samples in microgravity.
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