KENOSHA, Wisc.—Students at Carthage College send project into space with NASA.

The Blue Origin left earth and made its way to space on January 23rd. The roadcast of the launch was loud and explosive as another rocket was brought into space.

"There it is new shepherd has cleared the tower and has made her way to space for the 10th time," the broadcast said.

But believe it or not, students from Carthage College in Wisconsin have a close tie to this NASA launch.

"We started designing and developing it about two and a half years ago, so it's been a lot of time and years in the making," Carthage student, Celestine Ananda said.

A team of around 10 students developed a fuel gage prototype that took a glorious ride along on blue origin to be tested with the G-force in space.

"I was pretty over confident, I didn't think there would be any problems with it," Carthage student, Nicolas Bartel said.

The item the students sent up is what's called a payload, which is an item that went on board to space. But its purpose is to cut down on cost and improve efficiency in gauging fuel.

“We measure how much fuel is in a tank using sound waves and analyzing some kind of feedback from that and the vibrations," Ananda said.

The liquid inside these tanks allows a pitch to be made which will show how much fuel is left inside. You can compare it to the noise you hear when someone rubs their finger around the rim of a wine with liquid inside.

"We can cut down on hundreds of thousands of dollars by using out technique and that's caught a lot of attention from NASA for future missions to the moon and to mars," Ananda said.

Professor Kevin Crosby is still in Houston working on the project but says it's something he's incredibly proud of.

"This is really a departure for us to be able to put something up into space for the first time on the blue origin flight," Carthage professor, Kevin Crosby said.

Now as for the students, they said watching the launch with their own eyes in Houston was an experience of a lifetime.

"Seeing the rocket lift off I mean it brought tears to my eyes and a few other people because it didn't feel like it was ever actually going to happen," Ananda said.

The project came back all in one piece and now is having improvements made for trips in the future.