Buckeye Engineer appears on Fox's Xploration Outer Space

Jillian Yuricich, a fifth-year aeronautical and astronautical engineering major from Hilliard, Ohio, who has wanted to be an astronaut since she was five years old, recently took another giant leap closer to her dreams by learning what it really takes to go into outer space.

Last fall, Yuricich beat dozens of competitors to win TV show Xploration Outer Space’s national #StudentAstronaut Contest and earned the opportunity to attend PoSSUM Academy to learn what it takes to become a Scientist-Astronaut. 

Her training experience was featured in a season 2 episode of FOX’s Xploration Outer Space, now available for free on Hulu. The episode explores the suborbital science industry and what students will need to know to be part of this exciting new wave of research.

“I was part of the first class of undergraduate students to go through the program and was personally the first participant to ever fly in the spacecraft simulator in full spacesuit gear as both pilot and mission specialist on two different occasions,” said Yuricich.