The skeleton was named for the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." Lucy will be the first space mission to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. Building the STEM Workforce of the Future. Start your journey today! Image Credit: Jason Kuffer (via Creative Commons) CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 I’ll visit Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids as I research the 2021 Lucy mission. The Trojans may be remnants of the primordial material that formed the outer planets, and serve as time capsules from the birth of our solar system more than 4 billion years ago. Lucy Student Pipeline Accelerator and Competency Enabler. My research was related to dynamics, which studies how and why things move the way they do. #NASAinterns. The mission takes its name from the fossilized human ancestor (called "Lucy" by her discoverers) whose skeleton provided unique insight into humanity's evolution.

This summer, I spent 10 weeks in Boulder, Colorado working at the Southwest Research Institute with NASA’s Lucy mission. During the internship, students work with U.S. and other foreign interns under the guidance of NASA mentors. L'SPACE consists of two Academies - the Mission Concept … I figured I would write up my experiences with getting an internship. SUMMER 2020LUCY INTERNS Meet our 11 talented L'SPACE Alumni students who were chosen to participate in 10-week Lucy Mission summer internships at various locations including: Lockheed Martin Space, Southwest Research Institute, KinetX Aerospace, Inc, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Your Mission Starts Here —The L'SPACE Mission— The NASA L'SPACE Academy is a free, online, interactive program open to undergraduate STEM major students interested in pursuing a career with NASA or other Space organizations.

The NASA International Internships Project offers university students from participating countries competitive internship opportunities at a NASA field center. About three days later, the same NASA employee I had sent my resume to in my freshman year called to set up an interview.

My GPA is about a 3.3, I don’t come from a school with a lot of name recognition, and yet I’ve come to work shoulder to shoulder with people from MIT and who have had perfect 4.0 GPA’s. NASA’s Lucy Mission to Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids is currently accepting applications for its new student collaboration program – the Lucy Student Pipeline Accelerator and Competency Enabler (L’SPACE) Virtual Academy. Though being an astronaut may not be my calling, science storytelling is. The program motivated me to reach out to NASA again by applying for a summer internship. I can soar past the boundaries of the solar system interviewing scientists specializing in exoplanets. I worked with Hal Levison, the principal investigator of the mission, and three others working on Lucy or similar dynamics questions - Raphael Marschall, Katherine Kretke, and … To learn more about NASA Internships, please visit intern.nasa.gov.

I almost dropped my phone when he said he was from NASA. It was 8:00 pm and I was sitting by the tv, watching Netflix. One summer was spent as an intern at NASA, and the other two were spent at Draper.