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>>KATRINA: School’s out
for summer! For the next ten
weeks, thousands of students and

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recent graduates across the
country are going to be
interning at NASA. And about 425

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of them are going to be
interning across Goddard Space
Flight Center’s four campuses in

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various cleanrooms, labs, and
offices. And here in Greenbelt,
Maryland, it’s their first day,

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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?

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>>PRISCILLA: So
I’ll be working on research with

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mangroves and being able to
generate the global biomass for
mangroves using remote sensing.

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>>ALAN: So I’m working on the
LISA Pathfinder. It’s a European
Space Agency mission that NASA’s

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providing science support for.
So it’s testing technologies out
for the first gravitational wave

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detector in space. >>EKATERINA:
I’m going to be doing database
development for topological

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data. >>MARJORIE: I’m working on
a thermal infrared sensor that’s
going to measure land

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temperature. >>ROBERT: I’ll be
working at the NASA Innovative
and Advanced Concepts division,

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and I’ll be doing a lot of
paperwork, reading over people’s
projects and reporting it to

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other people. >>HECTOR:
Understanding how oxygen and
other compounds work in the

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stratosphere in Saturn.
Basically more computational
chemistry that I’ll be working

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at. >>CASSIE: Basically I’m
going to be looking at small
entry vehicles entering Mars and

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Venus, and how the heating
around the vehicle is being
affected by different probably

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Mach numbers, angles, things
like that. >>CLARE: And how did
you find out about this

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internship at NASA? >>STEVEN: I
originally met someone through a
conference last summer. I got

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introduced to somebody, one of
the branch managers who works
here and wanted me to work for

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him. >>PRISCILLA: The Indian
Natural Resources, Science and
Engineering Program, it’s a

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really great program that helps
many underprivileged students,
low-income students.

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>>HECTOR: My mentor at my
university, he told me to
apply for it, because my work at the university is

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kind of related to it. >> KIYUN:
My dad heard about it somewhere
and was like, “Hey, maybe you’ll

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like this and you should apply”
and so I did. >>ALAN: I was just
browsing OSSI, looking at the

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list of different opportunities,
and added this one to my list.
>>CASSIE: I’ve been applying for

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the past, like three years
actually, so when I got this I
was super excited. It’s like a

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dream come true. >>KATRINA: If
you could send a mission to
anywhere in the universe to

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study anything you wanted, where
would it be and what would it
study? >>CHADDOR: I remember

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hearing about an exoplanet that
was completely ocean, that was
maybe ten times bigger than any

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ocean here on Earth. And we know
more about our Moon than our
oceans, so it would be amazing

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to figure out what a whole
planet of water could be.
>>CASSIE: Maybe toward the

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center of the Milky Way, study
black holes, things like that. I
find those super interesting.

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>>STEVEN: Europa, or maybe
Enceladus. And the reason being,
those are two of the most likely

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places in our solar system in
order to find life. >>ROBERT:
I’d go to Mars to study the ice

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caps, because those seem really
interesting to me to see how
they got there, what they’re

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composed of, and how deep they
go. >>KIYUN: I don’t know, I
guess anything, like planetary

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atmospheres, things like that.
>>EKATERINA: Europa. For sure,
like go into the ice on Europa,

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it’s one of my favorite moons,
and I feel like there’s a lot of
potential there. >>KATRINA: How

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many NASA field centers can you
name? >>ROBERT: Uh, zero?
>>KATRINA: Well you’re at one of

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them. >>ROBERT: Oh, so I’m at
Goddard Space Flight Center.
>>MARJORIE: I know there’s one

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in Houston and in California but
I can’t remember the names
though. >>CHADDOR: You’re

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killing me, I can’t, haha.
>>CASSIE: I can name Goddard,
Marshall, Langley, Ames.

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>>ALAN: Ooh! There’s
Goddard of course. Kennedy,
Johnson, Marshall, Ames, Armstrong, Langley.

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Ooh, last three, they’re
going to be tough. Is
Dryden still a thing? Okay Dryden, cool. Dryden is

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Armstrong, crap, never mind
there’s still three more.
>>STEVEN: Okay so we have

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Goddard, Glenn, Ames, Langley,
Armstrong, Kennedy, Johnson,
JPL, Marshall Space Flight

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Center, uh we don’t count
Wallops right or Stennis?
>>CLARE: I think we do count

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Stennis. >>STEVEN: Oh do we? Oh!
Stennis Space Center then. Am I
missing one? Yeah. >>CLARE: Best

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of the day! Congratulations!
>>KATRINA: Well good luck on the
rest of your internship this

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summer. >>PRISCILLA: Thank you
so much. >>CLARE: Well the
interns are off to orientation.

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Soon after, they’ll start their
exciting and in many cases
out-of-this-world projects. You

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can follow their accomplishments
online at nasa.gov/goddard.

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