In their attempt to prototype a听reusable crew module for spaceflight, undergraduates Anastasia Muszynski, Dawson Beatty听and Andrew Pfefer found unexpected inspiration in the art of origami and received vital support from the .听
Muszynski鈥檚 passion for paper folding helped the team solve the complex challenge of engineering a module that can be tightly folded for transport and inflated in space鈥攁 technique called Miura.听The concept proved to be what she听remembers as 鈥渙ne of those creative ideas that just might work.鈥�
Muszynski, Beatty听and Pfefer听worked on Project Miura under the mentorship of Brian Sanders of the Colorado Space Grant Consortium and received funding from UROP in the form of individual student grants.
Each year UROP provides funding to support hundreds of student-faculty partnerships for projects in all fields of study.听
