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Flushing, NY, November 4, 2022\u2014Queens College senior Umar Kagzi has done his best to get Artemis I off the ground. Delayed from liftoff at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida by Hurricane Ian, Artemis I is now scheduled to launch for the moon on November 16\u2014and it will go with the aid of software that Kagzi helped develop as part of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) team. The next month, the Flushing native expects to complete his bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n
The world has been watching this mission closely. Artemis I represents the first phase of NASA\u2019s work on the most technologically advanced space exploration to date, culminating in manned flights to both the moon and Mars as well as scientific projects on the moon.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAt Queens College, our motto is Discimus ut serviamus: We learn so that we may serve. Umar represents exactly the qualities that we seek to encourage in our students,\u201d says President Frank H. Wu. \u201cHe is still an undergraduate, yet he has already contributed to a moonshot and, even more profoundly, the advancement of scientific knowledge important to the world. We are tremendously proud of him.\u201d<\/p>\n Kagzi, a computer science major, says that he \u201cwas always interested in the software side of things in space.\u201d He first approached NASA in spring 2021, hoping to win one of its highly competitive internships. Awarded a paid internship by NASA\u2019s Office of STEM Engagement, he worked remotely that summer as a software engineering intern with the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He and his team had less than two months to develop software for organizing a multimillion-dollar NASA competition called the Deep Space Food Challenge.<\/p>\n \u201cThe application we made was used for the official competition and assisted in the grading of hundreds of applications from around the world,\u201d added Kagzi. \u201cThe fact that we were able to complete such a sophisticated application in this short timeframe was an astounding achievement and one of the best engineering projects I’ve ever worked on!\u201d<\/p>\n His work on that project led to a second remote internship that fall with the Space Flight Software Development team, where he was able to help write test flight software for the Space Launch System\u2013Artemis Program. \u201cMy primary task was to develop this software for both the Artemis I and Artemis II spaceships using Python and an internal NASA tool,\u201d Kagzi explains. \u201cThe software tested the internal components and the guidance and navigation systems of the spaceships in a virtual environment to ensure they would work fine in the actual Artemis spaceship.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0Since January 2022, he has held his third consecutive internship at NASA\u2014now as a remote software engineer with the prestigious Pathways program, an opportunity designed to offer him a route to a NASA career. Kagzi was one of approximately 160 students chosen for the program out of a pool of nearly 10,000 applicants across NASA. He currently works on developing NASA software projects with his team at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n In the future, Kagzi looks forward to \u201cworking on exciting and challenging opportunities\u201d and someday pursuing an advanced degree. 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