Content overview: “How NASA Engineer Daniel Cohen Mentors Rice Student Malvika Bhardwaj for Next-Gen Space Ta”. At NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Guidance, Navigation & Control engineer Daniel Cohen is shaping the agency’s future workforce—one intern at a time. Rice University student Malvika Bhardwaj, who worked under Cohen, recalls asking if he could keep teaching interns despite his heavy workload. At NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Guidance, Navigation & Control engineer Daniel Cohen is shaping the agency’s future workforce—one intern at a time.
His reply: “You decide what’s important.” That philosophy, highlighted on National Mentoring Day (Oct. 27), underscores why mentorship matters at NASA: it transfers mission-critical skills and builds a pipeline of diverse engineers ready for Artemis, Mars, and beyond. Cohen’s hands-on approach gives students like Bhardwaj real-world experience in GN&C—the systems that steer spacecraft—while fostering confidence and curiosity. For the complete material, the listing points back to the source inside the network.