Grounded by pandemic, NASA interns keep researching

Grounded by pandemic, NASA interns keep researching

NASA, which is responsible for the U.S. government’s civilian space program, selects several dozen college students each year for internships with its Student Airborne Research Program (SARP). Most summers the program, started in 2009, meets at the University of California, Irvine and includes flying on research aircraft. … Interns planned to send the samples back to a laboratory at the University of California, Irvine for analysis of nearly 100 compounds in the atmosphere.