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>>KATRINA: It’s summer! So
thousands of students across the

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country are on break from school
and at work for NASA. Over 450

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are interning for the Goddard
Space Flight Center this summer,

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and a lot of them are in the
Visitor’s Center right now

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picking up their badges and
everything they need to start

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their first day. So let’s go
inside and meet a few, and stick

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a camera in their face.

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>>KATRINA: Violet, what are you
going to be working on this
summer? >>VIOLET: I’m going

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to be doing X-ray
astrophysics. So I’m going
to be... there’s a new

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instrument going up, and I’m
going to be modeling it in

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Python. >> RALEIGH: So what
projects will you be working on

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specifically this summer?
>>NICOLE: Micrometeorite science

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with LISA Pathfinder. >>HÉCTOR:
Well I’m going to be a web

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developer for Code 585, the
Software Engineering Department.

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>>ONYEOZIRI: Well, I’m not 100%
sure. >>KAYLA: This summer I’ll

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be doing the particle fallout
measuring methods internship.

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>>QASIM: So I’ll be working on
some spectrometer work.

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Essentially I’ll be doing some
of the hardware and software

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designing for NASA, and I’m
pretty excited to do that.

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>>KATRINA: What made you choose
Goddard specifically out of all

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off the 10 NASA centers?
>>HÉCTOR: I think that what

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motivated me to choose Goddard
was the amount of Puerto Ricans

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like me, graduated from my
school, who are working here on

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the different divisions. >>IMAN:
I went to high school like

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really nearby here, and so I’d
always pass by Goddard. And I

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never really thought about
coming here until it was

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suggested to me. I’m like, ‘Wait
a second, I know Goddard!”

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>>JACOB: It’s closest to where I
live, but it also had the things

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that I’m interested in.
>>VIOLET: Most of the research

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is being done here. It’s kind of
the most exciting center for me,

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honestly. >>VISHNU: I came to
graduate school in the U.S. just

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to come to NASA. So, I mean, I
traveled like 9,000 miles just

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to be here. So it is a big day
for me. >>KATRINA: If you could

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create any sort of hypothetical
planet that had anything on it

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-- was composed of anything --
what would this planet be like?

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>>KAYLA: It would be a lot of
great scenes, great sunsets. So

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like, I just love sunsets -- it
would be colorful. >>QASIM: I

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think there would definitely be
some fantasy things going on. So

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in terms of, um, I would
definitely have, like, rainbow

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skittles that were just coming
down from rain. >>IMAN: I like

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Earth. I think we should keep
Earth. >>HÉCTOR: Planet Earth.

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But cleaner. >>JACOB: Probably
somewhere a little more

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interesting than Earth. Like
maybe things we could see sort

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of right outside of, like, the
atmosphere I guess. >>VIOLET:

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Life forms don’t have to be
carbon-based, so it would be

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really interesting to see just a
planet with life forms that are

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completely different, and kind
of change our view of what life

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is. >>RALEIGH: And so what do
you think will be, I guess, the

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future of the space industry?
>>NICOLE: Well I think everyone

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is going towards Mars right now.
>>VIOLET: Definitely the concept

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of us going to Mars has been a
driving factor for a while.

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>>ONYEOZIRI: Now that we’ve
explored space -- to an extent

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-- I feel like now it’s more
like how do we get to live in

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space, can I get a vacation home
in space. >>KATRINA: So you

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think space tourism will be a
big thing coming up?

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>>ONYEOZIRI: Yes, yes. >>KAYLA:
A lot of people think it’s just

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the movies, but reaching out and
trying to go beyond just our

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solar system is probably where
everyone is headed next.

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>>VISHNU: The best part of the
space industry right now is that

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private players are coming in.
And it’s not that they’re

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competing with us at NASA, but
they’re kind of going together

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with NASA and that’s kind of
amazing. >>KATRINA: What are you

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most excited about for the
summer? >>ONYEOZIRI: I get to do

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what I love, which is program.
So, and work with robots.

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>>JACOB: It’s really exciting to
be here, and just to kind of

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learn how everything that I’ll
be working with works. >>QASIM:

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I’m most excited about the
workshops here, and making new

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connections with all the people
here. >>NICOLE: Just meeting all

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the other fellow astrophysics
nerds and stuff like that, so.

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>>IMAN: Honestly I have no idea
what to expect. But I’m most

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excited about being able to
share physics with the rest of

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the community here in Maryland
and D.C. >>HÉCTOR: It’s my first

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internship. I think I’m really
excited, like, for everything.

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>>KATRINA: Well good luck, I
hope you have a great summer, I

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know you will -- Goddard’s
great, so good luck! >>HÉCTOR:

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Thank you. >>RALEIGH: Now that
the interns have been oriented

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on everything they need to know
working here at Goddard, it’s

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time for them to meet their
mentors and start their

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projects. If you’re interested
in learning more about what it

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takes to be a NASA intern, you
can visit intern.nasa.gov for

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more information -- and also
keep an eye on nasa.gov/goddard

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throughout the summer to hear
more intern stories. 

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