INTERNSHIPS
The Aerospace Company
Internships & Co-ops
Aerospace offices across the country offer internships and co-op programs to help students find their place in space and an idea of what it’s like to work at The Aerospace Corporation.
Target Audience: Rising Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors, and Graduate Students; Limited Number of Opportunities for High School Students
Placement: The Aerospace Corporation Locations: El Segundo, CA; Colorado Springs, CO; Chantilly, VA; Albuquerque, NM
Axiom Space
Internships
As an Engineer Intern, you will participate in learning opportunities designed to expose students to multiple disciplines.
Target Audience: Undergraduate or Graduate Students with at Least One Semester Remaining After Internship
Placement: Houston, TX
Ball Aerospace
Internships
A summer internship at Ball Aerospace provides the tools you need to launch your career. Through challenging projects, mentorship, and hands-on experience, our interns have an opportunity to gain valuable firsthand experience in the aerospace and defense industry. As an intern, you’ll be involved in networking events with our executives, Ball site tours, career development opportunities and more.
Target Audience: University Juniors, Seniors and Graduate Students
Placement: Boulder, CO
Blue Origin
Internships
Our internship program gives students the opportunity to work on real engineering projects related to the development, construction, and testing of human spaceflight systems. Interns work directly with our engineers to contribute to project goals.
Target Audience: Undergraduate or Graduate Students with at Least One Semester Remaining After Internships
Placement: Blue Origin Locations: Kent, WA; Huntsville, AL; Merritt Island, FL; Van Horn, TX
The Boeing Company
Internships
We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with opportunities for professional growth.
Target Audience: Undergraduate and Graduate Students Pursuing Degrees in Engineering, Business, or Information Technology & Data Analytics
Placement: Various Boeing Locations (Globally)
EERE Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Technologies Office (EERE AMMTO)
Summer Internships
Paid educational opportunities in advanced manufacturing (robotics, energy storage or high performance computing) at a Department of Energy national laboratory.
Target Audience: Students (including high school seniors and all levels of university) and recent graduates at least 18 years of age
Placement: Various DOE national laboratories
Lockheed Martin
Internships and Co-Ops
Student programs that start your career in a meaningful way. Gain real-world experience, support innovative breakthroughs, and learn from Lockheed Martin experts.
Target Audience: Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Placement: Various Lockheed Martin Locations
NASA
NASA Pathways Program
This program provides current students with paid work experience and recent graduates with a dynamic career development program. Both offer the chance for permanent employment at the agency.
Target Audience: Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Placement: NASA Field Centers
NASA
NASA Internships
Interns use their creativity and innovation to work on projects impacting NASA’s mission, such as returning to the Moon by 2024. As a NASA intern, you will be part of an amazing team dedicated to space exploration.
Target Audience: High School (age 16+), Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Placement: NASA Field Centers
Northrop Grumman
Internships
When you become an intern at Northrop Grumman, you’ll contribute from your first day on a wide range of projects – some with high visibility, others with a low profile. While getting hands-on experience, you might discover an interest you didn’t know you had.
Target Audience: Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Placement: Various Northrop Grumman Locations
Redwire Space
Internships
One of the most important aspects of interning for Redwire is the hands-on work experience it provides and how this experience impacts future endeavors. Redwire interns work with highly experienced teams which facilitates valuable mentorship, job skills training, and real-world insights.
Target Audience: High School Students and Undergraduate Students
Placement: Jacksonville, FL
SpaceX
SpaceX Internships and Associate Engineering Positions
Our year-round program offers an unparalleled opportunity to play a direct role in transforming space exploration and helping us realize the next evolution of humanity as a multi-planetary species.
Target Audience: Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Placement: SpaceX Locations: McGregor, TX; Cape Canaveral, FL; Vandenberg AFB, CA; Hawthorne, CA; Seattle, WA; Washington, DC
Space Tango
Internships
Space Tango Inc. is a leading innovative space technology company headquartered in Lexington, KY. The company is comprised of a dynamic team that provides end-to-end services including the design and building of products that use microgravity for R&D and manufacturing uses.
Target Audience: Undergraduate Students
Placement: Lexington, KY
FELLOWSHIPS
Brooke Owens Fellowship
Brooke Owens Fellowship
Created to honor the legacy of a beloved space industry pioneer and accomplished pilot, Dawn Brooke Owens (1980-2016), the Brooke Owens Fellowship is designed to serve both as an inspiration and as a career boost to capable young women and other gender minorities who, like Brooke, aspire to explore our sky and stars, to shake up the aerospace industry, and to help their fellow people here on planet Earth. We do this by matching up to forty students per year with purpose-driven, paid internships at leading aerospace companies and organizations with senior and executive level mentors. Open to women or gender-minority students pursuing a bachelor’s or associate degree.
Center for the Advancement of Science in Space
The James A. Abrahamson Space Leader Fellowship
A 12-month advanced learning experience designed to promote workforce development for exceptional undergraduate and early-stage graduate students from underrepresented groups by introducing them to the diversity of research and technology development enabled by space. Fellows will work closely with the CASIS team and its network of partners to advance the ISS National Lab mission and our nation’s goal to commercialize low Earth orbit (LEO). For questions regarding The James A. Abrahamson Space Leader Fellowship, please direct questions to fellowshipinquiries@issnationallab.org
Department of Defense
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Program (NDSEG)
The DoD NDSEG fellowship program is a competitive fellowship that is awarded to U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and U.S. dual citizens who intend to pursue a doctoral degree aligned to the DoD services Broad Agency Announcements (BAAs) in research and development at a U.S. institution of their choice.
Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship
Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship Program
The Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship Program is a highly selective internship, mentorship, and networking program that provides extraordinary summer opportunities to current college juniors, seniors, and graduate students passionate about commercial spaceflight. Open to university juniors, seniors and graduate students. Placement is with commercial spaceflight companies.
NASA
NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity (NSTGRO)
NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate seeks to sponsor U.S. citizens and permanent resident graduate students who show significant potential to contribute to NASA’s goal of creating innovative new space technologies for our nation’s science, exploration, and economic future. NASA Space Technology Graduate Researchers will perform innovative space technology research at their respective campuses and at NASA centers.
NASA
NASA Postdoctoral Program
NASA Postdoctoral Fellows work on 1- to 3-year assignments with NASA scientists and engineers at NASA centers and institutes to advance NASA’s missions in earth science, heliophysics, planetary science, astrophysics, space bioscience, aeronautics, engineering, human exploration and space operations, astrobiology, and science management.
National Science Foundation
Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)
The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited U.S. institutions. The five-year fellowship includes three years of financial support, including an annual stipend of $34,000 and a cost of education allowance of $12,000 to the institution.
The Zed Factor Fellowship Program
Zed Factor Fellowship
The Zed Factor Fellowship will include pairing fellows with industry mentors, placing them in paid summer internships, and providing opportunities for them to build a community (via a summit and other gatherings, in person and virtual, throughout and after the summer program). The participants will also be required to give back to their communities, providing mentorship to a younger community member, building a program in their high school, or finding an appropriate way to grow and expand the impact of the Zed Factor Fellowship beyond themselves. Open to undergraduate students from underrepresented communities or backgrounds.
