
June 19, 2013
Mission Possible St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington seeks to be the first k-8 program in the U.S. to have a student-built satellite launched into orbit by 2014. With the assistance of computer teacher Melissa Pore and parent and NASA mission manager Joe Pellegrino, students built a CubeSat satellite, approximately four inches long and weighing about three pounds. The school received its first donation of $10,000 from ATK Space Systems to assist in the building and launching of this project. Alley Rozzi, mechanical technician, 7th grade; Annemarie Cake, safety and mission assurance manager, 6th grade; Tony Rozzi, mission system engineer, 5th grade; Mario Rozzi, ground system engineer, 3rd grade; Bella Rozzi ,graphics engineer, 2nd grade, and Travis Pore, camera engineer, 2nd grade, answer questions after a cube satellite demonstration at the David M. Brown Planetarium on Friday, June 14.