Brandon E. Larson

Brandon E. Larson is Student at California State University, Fullerton.
 
Brandon joined the US Navy right out of high school in 1991, going into the Nuclear Engineering program. He graduated from Naval Nuclear Power School in 1992 and later spent 5 years on board the USS California (CGN-36).
 
After he got out he went to work as an HVAC technician and went to school part-time. He joined the US Army Reserve in 2002 as a wheeled vehicle mechanic, and went to Iraq in 2004 for a one year tour. He went to school full-time after that, pursuing a degree in Civil Engineering. He spent most of 2010 in Afghanistan (again with the Army) and left the Army in March 2011 as a Staff Sergeant. He is now in his final semester as an undergraduate at California State University, Fullerton.
 
Brandon is currently conducting a research project studying the curing properties of Sorel cement concrete in a simulated Martian environment. This involves the construction of a thermal vacuum chamber and associated equipment for simulating the Martian atmosphere.
 
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