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>>I'm Emily Glover, I'm a Senior at Georgia
Tech, and I'm a Pathways Intern at NASA Armstrong.

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This summer I'm working on heat shield research,
specifically measuring the ultraviolet part

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on the heat shield, so that we can make it
less heavy for future flights.

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The internship program at NASA Armstrong focuses
on inspiring the next generation.

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The projects we work on are important, but
at the end of the day it's mostly about making

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us into the best engineers that we can be.

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>>I'm Jordan Conner, I'm a Senior at Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University, and I'm a Flight

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Test Operations Engineering intern here at
NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center.

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I'm working on the Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Integration into the National Air Space System

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project.

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We're trying to integrate small UAS into the
human piloted airspace.

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And to do this, we're doing flight tests where
we fly a manned aircraft towards this one

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and make sure that detect and avoid sensors
are working, so that there is no midair collisions.

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What I do during these flights tests, I'm
in the control room monitoring everything,

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making sure the autopilot is working correctly,
the altitudes are correct, the flight plans

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are as we inputted them.

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The advice I'd give to someone wanting to
intern here at NASA would be to get good grades,

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work hard in school, that's really important,
however the most important thing is passion,

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drive, and people skills, because you'll be
using that a lot, and it doesn't matter what

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your grades are, when you get into the work
place it's about your people skills and how

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you can work in a team.

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>>My name is Sarah Estep and I am going to be
a Senior at Morehead State University, and

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I'm majoring in Space Systems Engineering,
and I am an intern here at NASA's Armstrong

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Flight Research Center.

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So I am an intern on the Mars Glider Swarm/PRANDTL-M
projects and our goal is to be able to release

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a swarm of gliders in the Martian atmosphere
to do atmospheric sensing.

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So to be able to test that, this summer, we
wanted to be able to release multiple gliders

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from a weather balloon, and so, specifically
I'm making the release system that's going

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to hold the gliders and release them here.

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So I've got to help a lot with laying out
the actual molds and fabricating my gondola,

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so I was able to help with the epoxy and spread
it out, help wrap the carbon fiber around

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the mold, I got to do some sanding, some soldering,
they've really let me help with every step

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of the process and really helped walk me through
it, so I've learned a lot about what goes

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into actually making something here.

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>>My name is Loren Newton, I'm going to be a
first year Master's student at Stanford University,

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studying aeronautics and astronautics, and
I am a Pathways Co-op Intern in the Operations

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Engineering Branch here at NASA Armstrong.

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I'm working on the Life Support System for
the X-59 Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator, essentially

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the X-59 seeks to demonstrate quiet supersonic
flight without those loud sonic booms that

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have made overland supersonic flight infeasible
in the past.

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The life-support system revolves around making
sure that we can get oxygen to sustain the

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pilot at the inhospitable altitudes we'll
be flying at, up to 60,000 feet, both in the

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aircraft, and God-forbid if the pilot should
have to eject and descend to the ground.

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My responsibilities include getting the system
designed and tested, and this includes both

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the mechanical design of several of the components
in the system, as well as the logistics of

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getting ready to send it over to Texas for
pressure-chamber qualification testing.

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My future plans, for the short-term, are to
do a good job in whatever role I may be assigned

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to next, I aim to complete my graduate studies
at Stanford, and then continue to work in

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flight test engineering, it's something I've
wanted to work in ever since I was a kid,