Education and Outreach at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA?s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Program Office maintains a year-round educational program for undergraduate and graduate students. Within NASA?s Goddard Space Flight Center, the Exploration and Space Communications Projects Division implements the SCaN intern program with a focus on space operations, including operations of orbiting spacecraft, space communications, ground activities and networking. The intern program enables students to work with various NASA projects in solving real-world problems inside the Exploration and Space Communications division. Goddard interns have been assigned to the NASA?s Near Earth Network facilities in Greenbelt, Maryland, and Wallops, Virginia. They have also been assigned to NASA?s Space Network facilities in Greenbelt, Maryland, and Las Cruces, New Mexico.