Summer 2024

Meet our Summer 2024 NASA interns, Michael Bellacicco (left) and Benjamin Kanzer.

Michael worked at NASA Goddard with the Ocellus Team. Ocellus works on the 3D imaging LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) for APL/NASA’s Dragonfly mission, which is scheduled to launch in 2028. Read more.

Benjamin worked at NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS), assisting with developing a large-scale Earth system model (ESM), and working on the fire (pyrE) team within ModelE. The pyrE module, embedded deep within the ESM, works to predict fire dynamics from a number of factors calculated by ModelE. Read more.

Spring 2024
NASA Headquarters DCSGC Supported Student Researchers Charlotte Davis & Vaibhavi Mahajan.
Mars Human Exploration Research Program.

 The DCSGC is pleased to introduce our student researchers at the MARS Human Exploration Office at NASA Headquarters.

Congratulations to Georgetown University students, Charlotte Davis (left) and Vaibhavi Mahajan, who were selected to conduct research mapping human landing sites on Mars, writing articles for the Red Planet Dispatch, and promoting all things related to Mars exploration missions in spring 2024.