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Application Due Date for the 2020 NASA Planetary Science Summer School, Which Culminates at JPL, Is Extended

Published on Sunday, March 29, 2020 | 5:31 pm
 

NASA and JPL have extended the application period for its 32nd Annual Planetary Science Summer School (PSSS), a course offered for science and engineering doctoral candidates, recent PhDs, postdocs, junior faculty, and certain master’s degree students that consists of weeks of online preparatory sessions and a final culminating week at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

JPL, which offers the entire course in two sessions annually on NASA’s behalf, said the extension is due to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.

JPL said the new deadline for applications for the first session is April 13, 2020. For the second session, the deadline is May 4.

PSSS is a three-month long early career development experience to help prepare the next generation of planetary science and engineering mission leaders.

Throughout the course, participants learn the process of developing a hypothesis-driven robotic space mission in a concurrent engineering environment while getting an in-depth, first-hand look at mission design, life cycle, costs, schedule and the trade-offs inherent in each, a NASA description said.

To be eligible for the program, applicants should be U.S. Citizens or legal permanent residents who are doctotal candidates in cience and engineering, recent PhDs, postdocs, and junior faculty, Students of master’s degrees may also be eligible. JPL allows a very limited number of foreign nationals to register for the course.

Applicants from diverse backgrounds are particularly encouraged to apply. Partial financial support is available for a limited number of individuals.

Preparatory sessions for the first session occur from May 18 through July 17, with the culminating Week at JPL on July 20 to 24. Online classes for the second session are from May 18 to July 31, with the culminating week at JPL on August 3 to 7.

JPL describes the course as roughly equivalent in workload to a rigorous three-hour graduate-level course.

The first 10 to 11 weeks are spent in preparatory webinars with participants acting as a science mission team. During the final week at JPL, participants are mentored by JPL’s Advance Project Design Team, or “Team X,” to refine their planetary science mission concept design, and then present it to a mock expert review board.

For more information and to apply for this and other NASA Science Mission Design Schools, visit www.go.nasa.gov/missiondesignschools.

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