KRQE reporter Brady Wakayama visited Socorro to interview Dr. Andrei Zagrai and graduate student John Sanchez last week. Wakayama prepared a two-minute report on Zagrai's experiment that will be launched in early November and be installed on the International Space Station. 

Here is an excerpt of Wakayama's story, with a link at the bottom of the page. 

SOCORRO, NM (KRQE) – Students from New Mexico Tech are working on a project for NASA and the International Space Station that will hopefully make space travel safer and cheaper.  

“This payload has been about developing a structural health monitoring package for the International Space Station that will hopefully improve the safety and reliability of space structures in the future,” said John Sanchez, a graduate student at NMT working on the project. 

Professor Andrei Zagrai has been overseeing the project for the last two years. He said the payload will essentially be the eyes and ears of the Cygnus NG12 SpaceCraft being sent to the International Space Station early next month and will detect any issues that might arise.  

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