Aerospace Industries Association spotlights Carson Brumley

From the Aerospace Industries Association -

It’s no secret that Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) attracts some of the most talented minds in the industry — from executive vice presidents to interns. One is intern Carson Brumley, who is working at SNC’s Space Systems Group on the Dream Chaser^® spaceplane. In fact, she was just named a “Top 100 Intern in the US” by WayUp, a job website for recent college grads.

Carson was chosen from a pool of more than 700 interns. WayUp says more than 40,000 votes were cast in their search for the most ambitious, passionate, and talented interns in the country.

Carson is also a member of the Brooke Owens Fellowship program, which is a paid internship and mentorship program for young women who want a career in aviation or space exploration. And so, we sat down with Carson, to learn what her experience at SNC has been like.

What projects have you worked on at SNC? 

My background is in bioastronautics, so I’ve been working on human factors analysis, where I go through and quantify every interaction between the International Space Station crew and the Dream Chaser^®. So essentially making sure that the equipment fits all sizes of astronauts. That’s probably my favorite project so far. So for example, a pressure nozzle must be big enough or small enough for astronauts to use, have proper lighting, women have to be able to turn every knob. I’ve also been... Read the full story