(Imported from old site; original post: Saturday, October 20, 2012)

As discussed in the NASA Project entry, I have been attempting to make my senior design project at UK awesome. And awesome things require awesome amounts of money. So, you have to start early.

Recently, Dr. Alexandre Martin (my old, but young, fluids professor, that I mentioned in the NASA Project entry) and I wrote a proposal to NASA asking for money. I was surprised to receive a letter of support prior to the submission of the proposal from none other than Ioana Cozmuta herself (also discussed in the NASA Project post). To quickly sum up, she was essentially the inspiration for this project. The proposal was just submitted today (with her letter included, of course), and I guess we’ll back some time between a year and six months from now. Yes, in that order.

So I may be exaggerating a bit on the time, but it should be before January of next year (2013). Other proposals will need to be written, of course, to other companies. I certainly do NOT volunteer my company to give massive amounts of money to this effort. Why should I when there are aerospace companies with a much larger budget than mine! That’s a joke. Laugh. A true joke, but a joke, nonetheless. Laugh anyway.

Here’s the proposal if you’d like to look through it. The letter is attached as the last page of the PDF: MARTIN_TP_Project_2012