In this week’s newsletter, NASA’s volunteer science projects invite you to help with cutting-edge research, the deadline for Fall 2024 internship applications closes on Friday, April 12, and the opportunity to join our next class of NASA astronauts closes on Tuesday, April 16. Plus, more stories you might have missed.

CITIZEN SCIENCE

NASA Science Wants You

NASA’s volunteer science projects invite you to help with cutting-edge research in Earth science, planetary science, astrophysics, biological and physical sciences, and heliophysics. Helping might mean making environmental measurements with your smartphone or finding the signal of a new object in data collected by a space probe or satellite. These projects, sometimes called citizen science or participatory science projects, are open to anyone, regardless of your country of origin or citizenship status.

EXPLORE PROJECTS

Fly High with a NASA Internship

Our interns contribute to every program at NASA and play a vital role in our mission to explore the secrets of the universe for the benefit of all. The interns of today are the Artemis Generation leaders of tomorrow. Do you have what it takes? Fall 2024 internship applications close on Friday, April 12.

APPLICATION DETAILS

Last Call for New Astronauts

If you want to become an astronaut—or you know somebody who does—there is still time! The application deadline to join our next class of NASA astronauts is Tuesday, April 16. Our astronauts will push the boundaries of exploration on assignments to the International Space Station, future commercial space stations, and Artemis missions to the Moon in preparation for Mars.

APPLICATION DETAILS

Vote for NASA in the Webby Awards

Since it began in 1958, NASA has been charged by law with spreading the word about its work “to the widest extent practicable.” From typewritten press releases to analog photos and film, NASA has effectively moved into social media and other online communications.

This year, NASA’s broad reach across digital platforms has been recognized by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS), which gave NASA 13 nominations for the academy’s Webby Awards.

Voting for the Webby People’s Voice Awards—chosen by the public—is open now through Thursday, April 18. Explore all of the projects nominated and vote for your favorites!

EXPLORE PROJECTS & VOTE

From the Archives

The Mercury astronauts pose with a model rocket at a press conference in April 1959.

Credits: NASA

On April 9, 1959, reporters and news media crammed into the ballroom of the Dolley Madison House in Washington—the location of NASA Headquarters at that time—to learn the names of the first American astronauts who came to be known as the Mercury Seven. The first class of astronauts, (above, from left: Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Deke Slayton, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter and Gordon Cooper) became the first Americans to go to space, beginning a new era of space exploration.



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