Student interns pose with the BETTII instrument being developed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
Goddard intern students are contributing their expertise to an intern project called BETTII, short for Balloon Experimental Twin Telescope for Infrared Interferometry, under the watchful eye of Dr. Stephen Rinehart, associate chief of the Observational Cosmology Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Designed to study stellar evolution, the BETTII mission is a large project with a host of individual well-defined subsystems, which makes it ideal for division among interns.
Scientists at Goddard will send BETTI up on a balloon above 99.5 percent of the atmosphere. Credits: NASA Goddard/Talya Lerner