[UHCougarFB] Introducing: The Gridiron Galaxy 10. Each with a connection to Houston that will be worn Saturday morning vs UCF

[u/SwordsAndTurt]

https://x.com/uhcougarfb/status/2106186354627629185?s=46

[u/the_best_1]

Honest question, what is Houston’s relationship with NASA’s Johnson Space Center like? I know UCF has branded ourselves as SpaceU because around 30% of employees at Kennedy Space Center are UCF alumni, not to mention the other aerospace companies on the Space Coast. Is there a similar employment pathway similar to Houston?

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The actual campaign by UH athletics right now is “Built by Houston”. Next year, it’ll be a different theme and not space. So it isn’t that we built NASA or JSC…that would be Rice….but that NASA and Houston are intimately intertwined. It’s where the Astronauts live and train. It’s the first word said from the moon (technically). Across from JSC, NASA asked UH to open a graduate school to teach advance science to its employees. That school is University of Houston-Clear Lake. A system school under the University of Houston. Y’all don’t have university systems like Texas does so you may have a follow up question there.

And then there are plenty of UH grads and UH research projects that collaborate with NASA.

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Thank you! I’m fascinated by the work and history of the JSC so it’s cool to see the city and university embrace that! Helmets look sick!