Aurora man serves NASA internship

 

The following is a story about Wichita State student Jordan Jensen in the July 6 issue of .

Every night, Jordan Jensen calls home to tell his family in Aurora what he鈥檚 been working on at NASA鈥檚 Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif.

Some nights, after they鈥檙e done talking, his family will call him back.

鈥淚鈥檒l say, 鈥榃hat exactly did you tell me? That was really over my head,鈥欌 said Jodi Jensen, Jordan鈥檚 mother.

When what you鈥檙e working on is fluid dynamics, shockwave modeling and thrust vectoring, it tends to go over a lot of people鈥檚 heads.

That鈥檚 what Jensen, an Aurora resident and 黑洞社区 student, has been doing for the past six months as part of a prestigious internship at the center.