>>I'm Emily Glover, I'm a Senior at Georgia Tech, and I'm a Pathways Intern at NASA Armstrong.
This summer I'm working on heat shield research, specifically measuring the ultraviolet part
on the heat shield, so that we can make it less heavy for future flights.
The internship program at NASA Armstrong focuses on inspiring the next generation.
The projects we work on are important, but at the end of the day it's mostly about making
us into the best engineers that we can be.
>>I'm Jordan Conner, I'm a Senior at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and I'm a Flight
Test Operations Engineering intern here at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center.
I'm working on the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration into the National Air Space System
project.
We're trying to integrate small UAS into the human piloted airspace.
And to do this, we're doing flight tests where we fly a manned aircraft towards this one
and make sure that detect and avoid sensors are working, so that there is no midair collisions.
What I do during these flights tests, I'm in the control room monitoring everything,
making sure the autopilot is working correctly, the altitudes are correct, the flight plans
are as we inputted them.
The advice I'd give to someone wanting to intern here at NASA would be to get good grades,
work hard in school, that's really important, however the most important thing is passion,
drive, and people skills, because you'll be using that a lot, and it doesn't matter what
your grades are, when you get into the work place it's about your people skills and how
you can work in a team.
>>My name is Sarah Estep and I am going to be a Senior at Morehead State University, and
I'm majoring in Space Systems Engineering, and I am an intern here at NASA's Armstrong
Flight Research Center.
So I am an intern on the Mars Glider Swarm/PRANDTL-M projects and our goal is to be able to release
a swarm of gliders in the Martian atmosphere to do atmospheric sensing.
So to be able to test that, this summer, we wanted to be able to release multiple gliders
from a weather balloon, and so, specifically I'm making the release system that's going
to hold the gliders and release them here.
So I've got to help a lot with laying out the actual molds and fabricating my gondola,
so I was able to help with the epoxy and spread it out, help wrap the carbon fiber around
the mold, I got to do some sanding, some soldering, they've really let me help with every step
of the process and really helped walk me through it, so I've learned a lot about what goes
into actually making something here.
>>My name is Loren Newton, I'm going to be a first year Master's student at Stanford University,
studying aeronautics and astronautics, and I am a Pathways Co-op Intern in the Operations
Engineering Branch here at NASA Armstrong.
I'm working on the Life Support System for the X-59 Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator, essentially
the X-59 seeks to demonstrate quiet supersonic flight without those loud sonic booms that
have made overland supersonic flight infeasible in the past.
The life-support system revolves around making sure that we can get oxygen to sustain the
pilot at the inhospitable altitudes we'll be flying at, up to 60,000 feet, both in the
aircraft, and God-forbid if the pilot should have to eject and descend to the ground.
My responsibilities include getting the system designed and tested, and this includes both
the mechanical design of several of the components in the system, as well as the logistics of
getting ready to send it over to Texas for pressure-chamber qualification testing.
My future plans, for the short-term, are to do a good job in whatever role I may be assigned
to next, I aim to complete my graduate studies at Stanford, and then continue to work in
flight test engineering, it's something I've wanted to work in ever since I was a kid,
experimental flight in both air and space, has always captured my imagination, and I
would love to continue that work with NASA.