JPL
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Student climbing his way through American Ninja Warrior
Northeastern student and champion climber Josh Levin zipped through the opening round of American Ninja Warrior. Tonight, he’ll be on campus for a viewing party with the Northeastern community as NBC airs the show’s Los Angeles finals, in which Levin competed. Here, Levin, who’s won nearly 20 climbing national championships, describes how he aced the first American Ninja Warrior course.
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Alumni have their hands in space
Megan Richardson and Liz Duffy in front of the Vehicle System Test Bed, a copy of the Curiosity rover currently on Mars. As a kid, Liz Duffy E ’11 wanted to be an astronaut. Megan Richardson E ’10, on the other hand, was more interested in robots. Today they are both…
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Guest Post: A lifelong dream of Mars realized
A week ago I wrote a post about one of Northeastern’s art, media and design students spending her summer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. As I mentioned, Maddy San Martin’s father was instrumental in the recent Curiosity rover landing. Miguel San Martin, Chief Engineer for Guidance, Navigation & Control on the Curiosity mission, was…