Liquid Rocket Lab - Meet the Students

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Cal Poly Pomona. Liquid Rocket Lab. Fueled by NCRF. Race to Space.
How did you get into rocketry?
Will Morris: My dad and I when I was growing up would go out and fly model rockets just about
every weekend. That was a big part of my childhood and I've just been building
rockets for a long time. Ethan Sichler: My interest was first piqued in aerospace
engineering and rocketry in general was when I saw a space shuttle launch from
on the television essentially and it was it was amazing. That it kind of propelled
me to try and make the next launch vehicle essentially. Edwin Betady: The story of Homer
Hickam and and the movie October Sky. I watched it in fourth grade and became
fascinated by rocketry along with the the hardship that Homer Hickam had to go
through to become an aerospace engineer and eventually work at NASA.
Richard Picard: I've almost as long as I can remember I've loved Rockets always
wanted to be involved with them build them you know got started in you know
middle school and elementary school building a little Estes model kits.
And then you know as it goes from there I just got bigger ones and bigger ones and
bigger ones until finally I'm building liquid rockets here at Cal Poly.
How challenging has this project been?
Richard: It's been bittersweet. It's had a lot of really fun amazing opportunities but
it's also been a extremely challenging project. Learning all these new
things so so rapidly and trying to keep up with that while also balancing your
school and work and personal life. Ethan Sichler: It stretched what we can do as undergrads.
A lot of this stuff is something that we have to apply the theory that
we've learned in our classes. Richard: Making sure that all teams are on the same page with
the information because with a team this big... we have almost 70 people
working. Information changes very quickly and needs to be communicated very
rapidly in order to keep everyone working up to speed.
Will Morris: So we're here working over spring break and the primary motivation for that is we want
a rocket to fly and it's too cool of the thing to pass up essentially.
We would rather be here working, making this happen as opposed to going to the
beach for a few days, which is nice at the time. That's not something that that
you take into the future with you as part of your your person and your
character. It's definitely worth the sacrifice to us to be here and to do
what we need to do to make sure that we have a rocket to launch.
What are your career aspirations?
Richard: Specifically once I graduate I'd like to go into propulsion. So designing rocket engines themselves.
Edwin: After I graduate, I'll be working at the space missile
Center in El Segundo.
Will: I definitely want to work in the aerospace industry after
graduation and I truly believe that the experience I've gotten working at the
liquid rocket lab here would benefit my my overall career experience because now
I actually know a thing or two about liquid fuel systems. What we're doing
here is is no different than what a lot of the big companies do. It's just on a smaller scale.
Ethan: I definitely want to stick with aerospace after graduating.
This whole project has taught me so much and it's been such a blast essentially being here.
It's quite an experience.
Cal Poly Pomona. Liquid Rocket Lab. Fueled by NCRF. Race to Space.

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Liquid Rocket Lab - Meet the Students

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