Meet the Students Flying NASA’s IXPE Spacecraft

Students are learning to fly — with IXPE, that is!

While working at LASP, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, students at the University of Colorado, Boulder, train to become command controllers who work and manage spacecraft. From monitoring IXPE’s health and safety to sending commands to the spacecraft to look at cosmic objects at the request of scientists, these students are getting a one-of-a-kind hands-on experience.

Credits: NASA
Directed, Written & Produced by: Elizabeth Landau (NASA)
Edited & Produced by: Beth Ridgeway (NASA)
Animations and Imagery: NASA
Featuring: Alexander Pichler, Stephanie Ruswick, Amelia DeHerrera-Schnering, Rithik Gangopadhyay, Cole Writer