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my name is troubles hey my name's dakota

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tyler hi my name is tina beck my name is

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jillian

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my name is lindsey jacobson this summer

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i'm working virtually as an intern for

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nasa headquarters in washington dc

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this summer has been like no other with

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the kovid 19 virus spreading across the

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world

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most nasa employees work from home the

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same goes for interns

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interns usually get to work at one of

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the 10 center campuses

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but not this year luckily most work is

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digital these days

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interns are still contributing to nasa's

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james webb space telescope in wonderful

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and enriching ways so today i'm going to

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go ahead and give you a tour of

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nasa mary jackson headquarters

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okay so it's actually a guest bedroom

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but this summer

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for me it's nasa headquarters i'm

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focusing on star formation with

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jwst so of course i've got about 20

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articles open right now

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studying the forefront of science in

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star formation i'm focusing on the

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science goal called

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first light and reionization and the

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basics of what that means is

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when light reaches us from the beginning

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of the universe it's really old light

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and so it's really hard to see

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and what james webb can do is it can

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actually see that light a lot better

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than other telescopes that we've sent

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out in the past

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internships reflect the diverse types of

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jobs at nasa

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since it takes a tremendous amount of

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effort to get anything into space

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i'm focusing on the risks of the mission

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this means taking information from many

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places like spreadsheets databases and

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technical reports

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picking the important information out

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and condensing it into one place

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where anyone can go and interact the

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risk's life from conception to

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mitigation

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for my project i'm tracking the logic

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behind each accepted technical risk in

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the risk database

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this involves looking at mitigation

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strategies and trade-offs that may have

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been made while accepting technical

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risks

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despite the distance internships make an

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important difference to the mission

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and to the careers of students and

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recent grads it gave me the chance to

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meet

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a lot of people in the field and a lot

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of scientists at nasa in general and get

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to know their stories

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i recently graduated from the university

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of cincinnati with a degree in physics

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and this fall i'll be headed to grad

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school to study exoplanets

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and exoplanets is actually what i'm

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working on jwst with right now

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i'm really really excited to be able to

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be building just kind of a road map of

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past present future what we used to know

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what we want to know about the

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infrared light that is reaching us from

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the beginning of the universe