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>>KATRINA: School’s out for summer! For the next ten weeks, thousands of students and
recent graduates across the country are going to be interning at NASA. And about 425
of them are going to be interning across Goddard Space Flight Center’s four campuses in
various cleanrooms, labs, and offices. And here in Greenbelt, Maryland, it’s their first day,
so let’s go inside and talk to a few of the interns.
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>>KATRINA: Priscilla, what are you working on here this summer?
>>PRISCILLA: So I’ll be working on research with
mangroves and being able to generate the global biomass for mangroves using remote sensing.
>>ALAN: So I’m working on the LISA Pathfinder. It’s a European Space Agency mission that NASA’s
providing science support for. So it’s testing technologies out for the first gravitational wave
detector in space. >>EKATERINA: I’m going to be doing database development for topological
data. >>MARJORIE: I’m working on a thermal infrared sensor that’s going to measure land
temperature. >>ROBERT: I’ll be working at the NASA Innovative and Advanced Concepts division,
and I’ll be doing a lot of paperwork, reading over people’s projects and reporting it to
other people. >>HECTOR: Understanding how oxygen and other compounds work in the
stratosphere in Saturn. Basically more computational chemistry that I’ll be working
at. >>CASSIE: Basically I’m going to be looking at small entry vehicles entering Mars and
Venus, and how the heating around the vehicle is being affected by different probably
Mach numbers, angles, things like that. >>CLARE: And how did you find out about this
internship at NASA? >>STEVEN: I originally met someone through a conference last summer. I got
introduced to somebody, one of the branch managers who works here and wanted me to work for
him. >>PRISCILLA: The Indian Natural Resources, Science and Engineering Program, it’s a
really great program that helps many underprivileged students, low-income students.
>>HECTOR: My mentor at my university, he told me to apply for it, because my work at the university is
kind of related to it. >> KIYUN: My dad heard about it somewhere and was like, “Hey, maybe you’ll
like this and you should apply” and so I did. >>ALAN: I was just browsing OSSI, looking at the
list of different opportunities, and added this one to my list. >>CASSIE: I’ve been applying for
the past, like three years actually, so when I got this I was super excited. It’s like a
dream come true. >>KATRINA: If you could send a mission to anywhere in the universe to
study anything you wanted, where would it be and what would it study? >>CHADDOR: I remember
hearing about an exoplanet that was completely ocean, that was maybe ten times bigger than any
ocean here on Earth. And we know more about our Moon than our oceans, so it would be amazing
to figure out what a whole planet of water could be. >>CASSIE: Maybe toward the
center of the Milky Way, study black holes, things like that. I find those super interesting.
>>STEVEN: Europa, or maybe Enceladus. And the reason being, those are two of the most likely
places in our solar system in order to find life. >>ROBERT: I’d go to Mars to study the ice
caps, because those seem really interesting to me to see how they got there, what they’re
composed of, and how deep they go. >>KIYUN: I don’t know, I guess anything, like planetary
atmospheres, things like that. >>EKATERINA: Europa. For sure, like go into the ice on Europa,
it’s one of my favorite moons, and I feel like there’s a lot of potential there. >>KATRINA: How
many NASA field centers can you name? >>ROBERT: Uh, zero? >>KATRINA: Well you’re at one of
them. >>ROBERT: Oh, so I’m at Goddard Space Flight Center. >>MARJORIE: I know there’s one
in Houston and in California but I can’t remember the names though. >>CHADDOR: You’re
killing me, I can’t, haha. >>CASSIE: I can name Goddard, Marshall, Langley, Ames.
>>ALAN: Ooh! There’s Goddard of course. Kennedy, Johnson, Marshall, Ames, Armstrong, Langley.
Ooh, last three, they’re going to be tough. Is Dryden still a thing? Okay Dryden, cool. Dryden is
Armstrong, crap, never mind there’s still three more. >>STEVEN: Okay so we have
Goddard, Glenn, Ames, Langley, Armstrong, Kennedy, Johnson, JPL, Marshall Space Flight
Center, uh we don’t count Wallops right or Stennis? >>CLARE: I think we do count
Stennis. >>STEVEN: Oh do we? Oh! Stennis Space Center then. Am I missing one? Yeah. >>CLARE: Best
of the day! Congratulations! >>KATRINA: Well good luck on the rest of your internship this
summer. >>PRISCILLA: Thank you so much. >>CLARE: Well the interns are off to orientation.
Soon after, they’ll start their exciting and in many cases out-of-this-world projects. You
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