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“One of my biggest takeaways was to see all the coordination between teams. We weren’t just working with people on our site, but also across the country,” he said. “Learning how to get around any challenges by communicating clearly was probably the biggest thing I learned.”

He also had the opportunity to shadow staff in other teams, visited the site’s mission control facility, and even had a stint on the night shift at the launch pad as everyone at Wallops Island worked tirelessly to get the rocket ready for lift-off.

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As the day of the launch finally arrived, Emmett was joined at Wallops Island by family and friends. They were able to get a spot at one of the site’s best viewing points, a decommissioned ferry port just outside of the safe viewing radius known as the “hazclear.”  

Along with the excitement of getting to see the rocket take off on launch day, and learning about the level of coordination that it takes to successfully launch a rocket, Emmett also enjoyed the opportunity to learn more about the field of pneumatics. In his spare time, he said he would ask lots of questions and study engineering diagrams, comparing how they looked on paper during the design process to how they came together in the High Bay. 

“Another thing that surprised me is how well they’ve planned for what seems like every single thing that could possibly happen during a launch,” Emmett said about his internship experience. “In reality, it’s from them having done these launches so many times and, thanks to that experience, putting safety measures in place to prevent anything from going wrong.”

Now, as Emmett dives into his last year as an undergraduate here at UD, he looks forward to furthering his skills in aerospace engineering. Along with his senior design project working on a small-scale wind turbine, Emmett is planning on taking a propulsion course this spring. 

Emmett is also the president of the UD Chapter of the Aero Society of Automotive Engineers (ASAE). This year his goal is to lead a UD team in the SAE Aero Eastern competition where participants build and fly a remote controlled plane from scratch, along with coordinating ASAE’s other activities such as providing mentorship and resources to undergraduate students and coordinating a new model rocketry section of the club. 

Emmett hopes to leverage the skills and experiences gained from his time as an undergraduate, as well as his summer internship experience, to “work on something that goes into space — it could be a spacecraft, a telescope, a rocket, anything in space,” he said.  

His current dream job? This summer Emmett learned about a project that’s part of the NASA Gateway Program called Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO), a place for astronauts to live while they are on the Gateway’s space station in lunar orbit. 

“That project is something that would really interest me,” he said. “I don’t know if there’s any opportunities to work on that right now, but if not, then anything that travels into space would be something I’d go for.”