WAYNE — Students signed a storage locker that they helped build on Wednesday, a locker that will travel to the International Space Station, NorthJersey.com reported.
Juniors at the Passaic County Technical Institute built screws for the storage locker as part of its partnership with NASA.
The “HUNCH” program partners with schools throughout the country to allow students to construct and design hardware for space, according to the report.
The County College of Morris and the Lincoln Technical Institute are the two other New Jersey schools that participate in the program, according to its website.
Passaic County Technical previously designed screws for another storage locker that will be on board the SpaceX Rocket, which is expected to launch Feb. 25, according to the report.
The screws are tiny and were reportedly described by Stacy Hale, the NASA scientist who started the HUNCH program, as “thinner than a single strand of hair on your head.”
NASA gives the students the design specifications and blueprints of the screws. To build the screws, students have to input the designs into a computerized machine, according to the report.
Sara Jerde may be reached at sjerde@njadvancemedia.com. Follow her on Twitter @SaraJerde.
Our editors found this article on this site using Google and regenerated it for our readers.
