are educational hands-on opportunities that provide unique NASA-related research and operational experiences for high school, undergraduate, and graduate students as well as educators. You could engage in scientific or engineering research, development, and operations activities, or you could complete a non-technical internship supporting NASA business, outreach, or administrative processes. Through these internships, participants leverage NASA's unique mission activities and mentorship to enhance and increase their professional capabilities and clarify their long-term career goals.
NASA Internships can be full or part-time, conducted at a NASA facility, contractor facility, or anywhere activities are ongoing to advance NASA's missions. Visit to learn more about the many open projects and teams waiting for you to join.
There are three sessions: Fall (late August/early September to mid-December - 16 weeks), Spring (mid-January to early May - 16 weeks) and Summer (late May/early June to August - 10 weeks).
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Other NASA Programs for Students
RockOn Workshop (applications open now)
RockOn! is a hands-on workshop teaching participants how to create a sounding rocket experiment from scratch over a 5-day period and then launching it into space on the 6th day of the workshop. This is a team experience and takes place at Goddard Space Flight Center Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
The workshop is designed for college students and faculty. There are no prerequisites for participants. Anything needed to be successful at the workshop will be taught at the workshop. The workshop is scheduled from June 20-25, 2025 with launch expected on June 26, 2025. (Please note that June 27, 2025, is the backup launch date.)
Team size is 3 people (2 students and 1 faculty member). Each team builds one RockOn experiment. All experiments will fly on the rocket and into space. You must sign-up as a community college or university team; no individual registrations will be accepted. Please note that RockOn is limited to 28 teams. Teams will be able to apply up to the deadline, followed by a down select.
BIG Idea Challenge
The Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-Changing (BIG) Idea Challenge is an engineering design competition that seeks innovative ideas from teams of undergraduate and graduate students, tackling new themes each year that support technologies needed to develop technology needed to support NASA’s exploration goals. Finalist teams receive up to $150,000 to build and test their concepts before presenting their projects to a panel of NASA and industry experts.
The 2024 BIG Idea Challenge finalist teams have been announced, and there will be no challenge in 2025. Stay tuned for future challenges.
NASA SUITS (applications open now)
NASA Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students (NASA SUITS) is a design challenge in which college students from across the country help design user interface solutions for future spaceflight needs. NASA’s Artemis missions seek to land the first woman and first person on the moon and build to a sustained human presence on the Moon and ultimately, Mars. This means engineers are actively developing technologies needed to assure successful completion of science and exploration missions. As humanity pushes further into the space it is essential that crewmembers on spacewalks be equipped with the appropriate new technologies necessary for the elevated demands of surface exploration on the Moon and Mars. By participating in the NASA SUITS challenge, you can play a part in revolutionizing the human spaceflight experience!
All NASA Student Challenges and Programs
Browse this page to explore all of the different NASA student challenges, from spacesuit design challenges to lunar rover builds to rocket launches. They have programs for students elementary through college!