ETAMU Images Scholar Featured in NASA Article on Impactful Interns

East Texas A&M University pictures main Morgan Gridley was just lately featured in an article on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) web site highlighting her work—alongside two different interns—on the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The California native is spending her second summer time with NASA, having labored as a pictures intern in 2025 as effectively. As a part of her duties, Gridley photographed one in all NASA’s WB-57 plane throughout takeoff. The photos later supported information protection highlighting the plane’s position in aerial imaging in the course of the Texas floods.

According to the NASA article, Gridley additionally served as one of many photographers masking the Artemis III crew announcement, with a few of her photos showing in information protection of the historic milestone.

The article mentions that East Texas A&M alum Bill Stafford (’99) works as a NASA photographer and first shared the internship alternative with the ETAMU pictures program. Gridley jumped on the probability to work for NASA.

“I’ve always loved space and exploration, so it seemed like an incredible experience,” she mentioned within the article.

Read the complete NASA article on their website.