Image: Morgan McGrath, right, meets with Christina Koch, center, a NASA astronaut, during her internship with NASA’s Electrical Test Team. Prior to her December 2024 graduation, honors computer science student Morgan McGrath interned with NASA on the Electrical Test Team at the Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida. Through her internship, McGrath was able to apply her knowledge from the School of Computing to the real world as she learned about the hardware of the Artemis II spaceship. She even got to flip the same switches as the astronauts did to turn the spacecraft on. McGrath met many influential individuals during her time at NASA, including Christina Koch. Koch is an astronaut at NASA who is currently in training for the Artemis II mission. Koch previously served as a flight engineer on the International Space Station for Expeditions 59, 60, and 61. McGrath is a December 2024 graduate from UGA’s School of Computing. Post-graduation, she returned to NASA in a role at the Kennedy Space Center. Her job includes creating software tools for the space center and will serve as a subject matter expert on tests for the software. Type of News/Audience: Student Success
