NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Week 10: Farewell

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Nicole Leung

I’ve been procrastinating writing this blog post for a long time…I didn’t want to say goodbye!

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Week 9: the final countdown...

Sunday, July 31, 2022

Nicole Leung

This week, I redesigned the star camera mount again! I updated the dummy camera model in Solidworks to reflect the actual size of the camera, and added a part to represent the lens holder.

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Week 8: Never have I ever been stung by a jellyfish

Sunday, July 24, 2022

Nicole Leung

This week, I designed a new camera mount and presented it to the group. It should be more stable than the one from Week 7. I also took a picture of the back of the lab with the star camera!

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Week 7: Karaoke, festivals, and a thunderstorm

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Nicole Leung

Eric was out of the office this week, so Maryam (my office mate) stood in as my mentor this week! For work, I focused on the mechanical side of things with Tatsat.

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Week 6: bread

Sunday, July 10, 2022

Nicole Leung

I made a lot of progress at work this week. I managed to install software for the star camera and its controlling interface onto the flight computer with the EXCLAIM flight computer lead, Jim.

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Week 5: halfway through!

Sunday, July 3, 2022

Nicole Leung

I’m authorized to work at NASA for the rest of the summer! On Monday, I got a call from NASA internship coordinator, Sarah Alspaw, who asked me to confirm some things before I could go in. The next day, I met Eric at NASA for a more in-depth tour of the buildings that I’d be working in.

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Week 4: Goddard, Frisbee, Scones, and Outreach

Sunday, June 26, 2022

Nicole Leung

This week, I finally got to see the Goddard Space Flight Center campus! There was an intern picnic event on Wednesday, and I got one day visitor access to participate. In theory, Goddard is 30 minutes away from ACP.

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Week 3: solve your star field in SECONDS with this cool trick!!! computers hATE HER!!!!

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Nicole Leung

Once again, I made food for the week on Sunday. I used my leftover ingredients from last week to make pasta, as well as a stir fry with meat, tofu, and mixed vegetables to go over rice. I also got a pesto sauce and an eggplant-garlic-red pepper sauce to add to my sandwiches at work.

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Nicole Leung

Week 1: Getting Settled

Sunday, June 5, 2022

Nicole Leung

It’s week 1! Every day has something new to offer. On Monday, I learned that the White House is next to a whole assortment of monuments and museums, which are all within walking distance of the dorms.

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