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2026 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Entry, Descent, and Landing

Michael Wright

June 2026

Flight Mechanics

01:02:52

2025 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Development of the 3MDCP Thermal Protection Material

Jeremy Vander Kam

July 2025

Flight Mechanics

48:53

2025 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Arriving At An Aerocapture Technology Demonstration Design Arrival

Dr. Rohan Deshmukh

June 2025

Flight Mechanics

01:12:12

2025 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: EDL Big Picture and LAND Domain

Michael Wright

June 2025

Flight Mechanics

59:23

2025 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Infrared Thermography: Overview, Applications, and Future Research

Drew Turbeville

June 2025

Flight Mechanics

01:22:11

2025 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Entry Systems Thermal Protection Material Development: Insights For Next Generation Reusables And Ablatives

Peter Marshall

June 2025

Flight Mechanics

01:20:18

2025 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Dragonfly Parachute Dynamics Testing

Dr. Justin Shafner

June 2025

Flight Mechanics

59:05

2025 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Using Unsteady Pressure-Sensitive Paint (uPSP) for Capsule Dynamic Stability

Nathan Eller

June 2025

Flight Mechanics

01:01:14

2025 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Entry Systems Modeling & Instrumentation Overview

Aaron Brandis

June 2025

Flight Mechanics

01:26:23

2025 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Laser Enhanced Arc Jet Facility (LEAF)

Geoff Cushman

June 2025

Flight Mechanics

01:03:28

2025 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume Surface Studies

Olivia Tyrrell

June 2025

Flight Mechanics

01:21:02

2025 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: How To Make Drugs and Do Science at Mach 25+

Dr. Ashwin Rao

June 2025

Flight Mechanics

51:23

2024 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Physics-Informed Modeling of Multi-Nozzle Plume Physics with Quantifiable Uncertainties from Supersonic Retropropulsion Tests

David Wu

July 2024

Flight Mechanics

28:01

2024 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Wall Modeled Large Eddy Simulation of High-Enthalpy Hypersonic Flows

Robyn MadDonald

July 2024

Flight Mechanics

49:34

2024 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: High-Fidelity Simulation and Modeling of Transition and Heat Transfer in Hypersonic Flows Over Blunt Bodies

Ivan Bermejo-Moreno

July 2024

Flight Mechanics

58:46

2024 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Artemis Human Landing System Update

Alicia Cianciolo-Dwyer

June 2024

Flight Mechanics

41:36

2024 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Introduction to Uncertainty Quantification for EDL Applications

Anabel del Val

June 2024

Flight Mechanics

01:09:06

2024 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Aerocapture As An Enabling Technology For The Ice Giants

Soumyo Dutta

June 2024

Flight Mechanics

01:09:08

2024 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: EDL Technology with Application to Dragonfly/Dragonfly EDL: A Risk Management Story

Michael Wright

June 2024

Flight Mechanics

01:21:48

2024 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Entry Modeling for Planetary Defense

Eric Stern

June 2024

Flight Mechanics

01:20:38

2024 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Advanced Diagnostics for High Enthalpy Flows

Meagan MacDonald

June 2024

Flight Mechanics

32:31

2024 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Turbulence and its Impact on EDL

Clark Pederson

June 2024

Flight Mechanics

01:13:18

2024 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: SPEED Overview and First Flight Quicklook

Cole Kazemba

June 2024

Flight Mechanics

01:21:22

2024 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: ECI Project Overview: AERACEPT

Jeremy Meurisse

June 2024

Flight Mechanics

01:13:23

2024 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: 3D Radiative Transport Modeling

Amal Sahai

June 2024

Flight Mechanics

01:06:57

2024 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Building-Block-Flow Model for LES of High-Speed Flows; Strong Heat Transfer and Wall Roughness

Adrian Lozano Duran

June 2024

Flight Mechanics

01:21:40

2024 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Artemis Backshell Radiation

Chris Johnston

June 2024

Flight Mechanics

48:14

2023 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Reusable TPS: Past, Present and Future

Dr. Adam Caldwell

June 2023

Flight Mechanics

01:03:03

2023 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: LOFTID Flight Summary

Stephen Hughes

June 2023

Flight Mechanics

01:25:55

2023 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: A Multi-Probe Mission at Jupiter is Within our Reach

Ethiraj Venkatapathy

June 2023

Flight Mechanics

01:23:42

2023 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: An Introduction to Machine Learning With EDL Applications

James B. Scoggins

June 2023

Flight Mechanics

01:22:39

2023 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Advanced Computational Center for Entry System Simulation

Iain Boyd

June 2023

Flight Mechanics

58:45

2023 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Future Flight of Mars

Haley Cummings

June 2023

Flight Mechanics

49:06

2023 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Supersonic Retropopulsion: Technology Status, Wind Tunnel Testing and CFD Analysis

Karl Edquist

June 2023

Flight Mechanics

01:05:40

2023 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Certification by Analysis of Woven TPS: Fiber - and Weave-Scale Modeling

Sergio Fraile Izquierdo

June 2023

Flight Mechanics

01:12:26

2023 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: A Multi-Architecture for Implicit Computational Fluid Dynamics on Unstructured Grids

Gabriel Nastac

June 2023

Flight Mechanics

57:23

2023 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: DAVINCI: The Big Plunge into Venus

Soumyo Dutta

June 2023

Flight Mechanics

58:06

2023 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: EDL State of the Union

Michelle Munk

June 2023

Flight Mechanics

01:02:08

2022 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Scientifically Calibrated In-Flight Imagery

Carey Scott

March 2023

Flight Mechanics

01:29:40

2022 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Porous Microstructure Analysis (PuMA)

Federico Semeraro

March 2023

Flight Mechanics

59:48

2022 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Backshell Radiative Heating and its Application to Mars 2020

Chris Johnston

March 2023

Flight Mechanics

59:02

2022 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: STMD Early Career Initiative

Steven Snyder

March 2023

Flight Mechanics

01:13:26

2022 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Analysis 101: Intro to DSMC

Dr. Arnaud Borner

March 2023

Flight Mechanics

01:12:16

2022 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Introduction to Plume-Surface Interaction (PSI)

Ashley Korzun

March 2023

Flight Mechanics

01:18:37

2022 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: AETC Descent System Studies

Karl Edquist

March 2023

Flight Mechanics

01:11:29

2022 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Artemis Human Landing System Deorbit, Descent, and Landing

Alicia Dwyer-Cianciolo

March 2023

Flight Mechanics

55:40

2022 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Brief Summary of EDL GNC

Soumyo Dutta

March 2023

Flight Mechanics

01:06:08

2022 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Commercial Crew

Lindsay Kirk

March 2023

Flight Mechanics

01:03:22

2022 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Decadal Survey / Future Science Priorities

Ethiraj Venkatapathy

March 2023

Flight Mechanics

01:15:47

2022 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Parachute Simulation

Francios Cadieux

March 2023

Flight Mechanics

01:07:49

2021 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: SCIFLI

Dr. Jennifer Inman

April 2022

Flight Mechanics

01:25:12

2021 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Orion Multi-Purpose Crew

Adam Amar

March 2022

Flight Mechanics

01:31:54

2021 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Propulsive Descent Technologies

Ashley Korzun

March 2022

Flight Mechanics

01:26:53

2021 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Mars Sample Return

Karl Edquist

March 2022

Flight Mechanics

01:15:00

2021 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Material Response Modeling

Jeremie Meurisse

March 2022

Flight Mechanics

01:24:26

2021 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Wind Tunnel Testing Lecture

Scott Berry

March 2022

Flight Mechanics

01:00:34

2021 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Entry Systems Modeling

Michael Barnhardt

March 2022

Flight Mechanics

01:24:00

2021 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Aerocapture and Aerogravity Assist

Jim Arnold

March 2022

Flight Mechanics

01:01:27

2021 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Computational Materials Modeling

Justin Haskins

March 2022

Flight Mechanics

01:21:50

2021 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Dragonfly / DrEAM

Michael Wright

March 2022

Flight Mechanics

01:20:13

2021 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: High Enthalpy Testing

Earnest Fretter

March 2022

Flight Mechanics

01:24:38

2021 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: CFD 101

Kyle Thompson

March 2022

Flight Mechanics

01:15:48

2021 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Aerodynamic Modeling

Karen Bibb

March 2022

Flight Mechanics

01:27:55

2021 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Introduction To Radiative Heating

Brett Cruden

March 2022

Flight Mechanics

58:40

2021 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Aerothermal Environments

Dinesh Prabhu

March 2022

Flight Mechanics

01:19:28

2021 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: LOFTID

Greg Swanson

March 2022

Flight Mechanics

01:11:54

2021 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Overview of EDL at NASA

Michelle Munk

March 2022

Flight Mechanics

01:17:03

2021 NASA Langley/Ames EDL Seminar for Summer Interns: Trajectories

Juan Cruz

March 2022

Flight Mechanics

01:20:53