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Designing a Star Tracker for Astronaut Don Pettit to Use on the ISS
RIT photography professor Ted Kinsman shares how he designed and built a star tracker for NASA astronaut Don Pettit to use on board the ISS.
My son, Parker Kinsman, who is studying industrial design, quickly created the CAD files for a local machine shop to follow to make the plates. With the tracker system safety aboard the ISS, the next critical flight was the arrival of Don Pettit onboard a Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft as part of Expedition 72 on September 11, 2024. His work has appeared on The Discovery Channel, Crime Scene Investigations (CSI), The X-Files, South Park, The Tyra Banks Show, and The Frozen Planet series.
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