Devon Miller at NASA-Goddard. "I worked at the Lunar and Planetary Academy at Goddard Space Flight Center on the Lunar Dust Mitigation Project. If too much dust enters the astronaut's living areas, breathing becomes difficult. Our solution uses a low-power electron beam in a vacuum with a small electric field that acts as a dust collector.
"We·also·took·a week-long trip to Racetrack Playa in Death Valley, California, to study the phenomena of the roving rocks. The rocks move around on the almost-flat surface of a dried up lake bed. The rocks leave behind trails that are hundreds of feet long. No one has ever witnessed this happening. We took measurements of the moving rocks to form a hypothesis on the mechanisms required for them to move. National Geographic magazine wrote an article on this project, which included this photo of me."
Katie Reid's 2014 internship at NASA-IV&V. "I am working on the Orion spacecraft, which will take astronauts further into space than ever before, past the Moon and possibly even to Mars. In December 2014, the Orion is scheduled to have its first unmanned test flight. Flight data will be sent to NASA-IV&V to be analyzed using Python software."
Corey Rhodes's 2014 internship at NASA-Langley. "My objective was to develop a computer model of a rocket's flight characteristics. I used an Arduino circuit to record data from an accelerometer and an altimeter."
Andrew Tiffin attends Aircraft Readiness Engineering Workshop (2014). "I was one of only 15 students in the entire nation selected for the workshop at North Carolina State University. We flew helicopters in a flight simulator, ran tests on aircraft materials, toured the Cherry Point Marine Corps air station, visited a flight mishap investigation facility, and toured an aircraft operations line to see engineers at work." Andrew's funding came from the NASA-WV Space Grant Consortium."
Josh Hiett's 2014 summer internship at NASA IV&V. Josh's project involved improvements to the user interface to Rover-X, a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle developed during the summer by the Robotics Capabilities Development Team at the NASA Independent Verification and Validation Center in Fairmont.
Josh also participated in the Rock-Sat-C program. He traveled to the NASA Wallops Island Flight Facility for the launch of a sounding rocket that carried several experiments, including Josh's experiment to measure Earth's magnetic field. On June 26 at 7:21 am, the suborbital two-stage Terrier Improved Orion rocket was successfully launched to an altitude of 120 km. |