JPL/NASA Anyone want to work there?

[Greg Needel]

Originally Posted by DougHogg

One of the cool things about JPL is that it is managed by Cal Tech (California Institute of Technology - http://www.caltech.edu/) for NASA, so I think that it has probably has a more academic feel to it than some NASA centers. (My son Robert works there, although he is on a sabatical at the moment.)

I can’t speak for JPL but APL is managed by Johns Hopkins university and having worked there it is really not an academic environment. I am actually not sure about the university partnership beyond faculty and grad students.