At the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), a team of students and faculty is demonstrating how space innovation is not the product of a single discipline, but the result of tightly coordinated teamwork across time and academic disciplines. Their project, the Terahertz Imaging Camera (TIC), set to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2027, stands as a powerful example of how NPS transforms defense-focused education and applied research into real-world operational capability.