Exploring

NASA is more than astronauts, just as a school is more than teachers. NASA employs scientists, engineers, technicians, IT specialists, human resources specialists, accountants, writers, artists, lawyers, and many other kinds of people. Working together, NASA employees strive to break barriers and achieve the seemingly impossible in missions of discovery.
With its career focus, Exploring is a great way to prepare for work at NASA. Given NASA’s missions, the Explorer posts that are likely to best prepare you for a NASA career include:
• Aviation – where the first A in NASA is for Aeronautics, the science of flight
• Engineering & Technology – needed to enable NASA’s explorations
• Health Care – needed for astronaut health and explorations of biological sciences
• Science – needed to guide and learn from NASA’s explorations
• Skilled Trades – needed for the fabrication of spaceflight hardware and much more
As another step toward career, consider an internship where NASA has internship programs for high school students, undergraduate, and graduate students. NASA also has a program for community college students.

NASA Links:
• Aeronautics
• Careers
• Engineering
• Human Health and Performance
• Internship Programs
• NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS)
• Space Biology
• Science
• Technology