NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Week 6: Project Progress and Goddard Tour

Friday, July 19, 2013

Alec Lindman

This week we held the NASA Goddard tour for the other SPS interns, and I made major progress on my project. Early in the week I decided to replace the hodgepodge of bits from the parts-without-a-home cabinet that had been simulating the central component of my model with a proper part.

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Week 4: My Kevlar Gets Stuck

Friday, July 5, 2013

Alec Lindman

My main accomplishments this week comprised one material project and one conceptual breakthrough: I built a fully analogous test rig for the Kevlar strands, and I figured out an elegant way to route them.

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Week 3: Life and Science in DC

Friday, June 28, 2013

Alec Lindman

This week has been both productive and enjoyable – it’s my favorite week thus far, and given the prospects of my project, the trend looks like it will continue.

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Reflection: A Summer of Growth

Monday, August 26, 2013

Darren McKinnon

It's officially been over a month since I left DC. As I lose myself in another semester of school, I think back on my internship with fond memories.

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Week 2: The Case of the Missing IT Access

Monday, June 10, 2013

Darren McKinnon

The tail end of the second week caught me by surprise; I was the overconfident gazelle to it’s stealthy, hungry lion.

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Week 1: It doesn't get weirder than this

Monday, June 3, 2013

Darren McKinnon

My new roommate Ro summed up our first day in DC with the simple and honest truth: “It doesn’t get weirder than this.” You see, we were at a restaurant at 11:30 at night thousands of miles away from our hometowns with people we had met less than six hours previous… And we were having fun.

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Week 2: Copper in the Waveguide

Monday, June 17, 2013

Alec Lindman

The Kennedy Center is a delightful place to unwind from the workweek, and that’s just what we did on Friday. The National Symphony Orchestra played an enjoyable program with some rather interesting cello solos, and we took it all in from our seats in the first row.

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Week 1: Any two five elevennis?

Monday, June 10, 2013

Alec Lindman

Monday the third of June was our first day at work for the summer, and everything looks quite exciting. As we’ll hopefully continue to do throughout the summer, all of us who are staying at GW walked to the metro station at 7:40, and we were at the American Center for Physics at 9 on the dot.

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Darren McKinnon

NASA Goddard Space Center Intern

Alec Lindman

NASA Goddard Space Center Intern

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