He worked retail for a year and eventually landed that job at Boeing. He spent a year after college- no internships- unemployed because he absolutely would not take anything other than a space job. He now works in Houston on Orion and ISS. One of my coworkers at NASA started as a Boeing engineer and eventually "converted" to a full time NASA civil servant. ![]() You can contract and stay a contractor, or you can eventually convert to being a civil servant. They work the same programs alongside NASA engineers, oftentimes at NASA facilities. So many of NASA "employees" are actually contractors. Or you work for a NASA contractor like Boeing or Lockheed or SpaceX or Jacobs or Leidos or or one of the literally hundreds of others of companies that contract for NASA. You can get a master's or PhD and apply via USAjobs and get lucky. Of course, there are other avenues to NASA. I literally got an email today from the internship coordinator during my internship encouraging us internship alums to apply to newly-opened co-op positions. ![]() But there was no NASA job waiting for me, as an intern, after college. I did extremely well during my internship and my managers expressed that they wanted me to come back. NASA's entry-level positions are reserved for their pathways co-ops. But I wasn't in the co-op program- the advantage of the co-op program is that if you do well, you're basically guaranteed a job come graduation. ![]() If you want an actual answer on how to get hired from NASA out of college GET INTO THEIR CO-OP PROGRAM. Do everything you can NOW to prepare yourself to be an effective candidate in NASA's pathways co-op program.
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