How to Get Involved With NASA as a Student 🚀
NASA involvement goes way beyond internships.
Some traditional NASA internships have U.S. citizenship requirements, but that does not mean there are no ways for international students to participate in NASA related programs, research, challenges, and training.
Last updated: August 19, 2026
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Ways to Get Involved With NASA
NASA ARSET
NASA
"Free NASA training with certificates available."
Free NASA training in Earth observation and remote sensing for students, researchers, and professionals.
NASA Open Science 101
NASA
"Temporarily closed — check for mid September reopening."
A free self paced NASA course introducing open science principles and practices.
NASA Open Science Data Repository (OSDR)
NASA
"Real NASA data for your projects and portfolio."
Access biological and environmental datasets from spaceflight and space relevant research.
NASA Space Apps Challenge
NASA
"Registration opens August 26, 2026!"
A free global NASA hackathon where participants use NASA and partner space agency data to solve real world challenges.
NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge
NASA
"2027 proposals are open now!"
A multi month NASA engineering challenge where student teams design and build rovers and complete mission tasks inspired by lunar exploration.
NASA OSDR Analysis Working Groups
NASA
"Collaborate on real NASA data projects."
Join collaborative groups of scientists, students, and researchers who analyze NASA Open Science Data Repository datasets.
NASA Citizen Science
NASA
"Real NASA science you can join from anywhere."
Participate in real NASA supported science from home. Many projects can be completed using only a laptop or phone.
A note to international & immigrant students 💗
There is a common misconception that NASA is completely inaccessible to international students.
Some traditional opportunities do have citizenship restrictions, but there are still many ways to participate in challenges, research, open science, technical training, data projects, and global communities.
Whenever you see the 🌎 symbol on a card, it means the opportunity is explicitly international or global.
You belong in these spaces too.
Your journey does not need to look like anyone else's.
Keep exploring 🚀
There are hundreds of scholarships, fellowships, conferences, research programs, competitions, grants, and other opportunities waiting for students.