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Meet Rain, a Mechatronics Engineer for Mars Sample Return. Growing up, Rain enjoyed tinkering by taking things apart and putting them back together again. In college, he studied Mechanical Engineering and was part of the Formula SAE team, where his passion for engineering grew through helping to develop prototype formula-style racecars. As an undergrad, Rain started as a co-op at JPL. After receiving his master’s degree, he joined JPL’s Mechatronics division in 2017. Rain’s favorite thing about JPL is how there’s always someone to learn from and someone to find answers from. He looks forward to the challenges his work provides: all designs and deliveries must be precise, thorough, and highly reliable. Rain believes everyone should have equal opportunities in the field they are interested in. When not on the Lab, he can be found catching waves on his surfboard. #APAHM #LifeatJPL
What does the path to becoming a NASA engineer look like? Join our chat with Tracy Drain, a systems engineer who's worked on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Kepler Space Telescope, and the Juno mission to Jupiter. Thursday at 7pm PT (10 pm ET, 0200 UTC)
Kids at work! Our virtual #TakeYourChildtoWorkDay event lasted all week this year. JPL employees brought life at the Lab home to their families with activities from coloring planet cutouts and exoplanets, learning about the NASA Eyes visualization tool, participating in virtual meetings to building straw rockets. #LifeatJPL #KidsatWork #InThisTogether
Thank you, teachers! Here's how you've helped us reach for the stars at NASA-JPL 🍎🚀✨ #TeacherAppreciationDay
If you enjoy space dramas and galaxies far, far away, you should view our career opportunities at http://jpl.jobs! #MayTheFourthBeWithYou #Maythe4thBeWithYou
ICYMI: The FDA authorized our #COVID19 ventilator for emergency use. Designed with rapid production in mind, the device's license is being offered for free to manufacturers. #InThisTogether
It’s #InternationalAstronomyDay! 🔭 🌌🛰 Meet Virisha, Data Scientist at JPL. Her telescopes are her most treasured possessions as they inspired her dream to pursue a career at NASA JPL. Her love for astronomy started with a space encyclopedia. Her parents encouraged her curiosity, buying Virisha her first telescope during high school. Before she moved to the United States from India to pursue grad school in her search for the unknown in the cosmos, she passed her first telescope to her cousin. He also loves stargazing and never misses any celestial event and is inspired to follow in Virisha’s footsteps and work for NASA. She says, “This telescope has changed our lives forever.” Now Virisha owns a travel scope that fits in her backpack so that she can take it with her on all her travel adventures to various national parks and other dark skies across the world. 📸 credit: Virisha T. (Left: Virisha’s cousin with her first telescope was equipped with a solar filter and a light pollution filter for stargazing in the city. Right: Virisha and her travel scope.)
Across NASA, we have 12 nominations this year for The Webby Awards and you’re an essential part of that. Thank you for being cosmic explorers with us. Vote now through May 7 for the People's Voice awards.
Honey, I Shrunk the NASA Payload We need YOUR ideas for science tools that could fit inside a tiny package no bigger than a bar of soap to be carried by a small lunar rover. Your entry could help future #Artemis astronauts on the Moon. Enter by June 1!
We're not just dreamers, we doers. "Crazy ideas" are welcome. Read how Bob Balaram's idea came to life. The Mars Helicopter will hitch a ride to the Red Planet this summer with NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover. The tech demo’s chief engineer, Bob Balaram, shares the story of how this “crazy idea” came to life.
