My cousin in law works in planetary magnetospherics at Goddard. His specialty is plasma physics. His team is looking for help:

"The Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics (LEP) at the Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's designated Center of Excellence for Space Science, is seeking scientists with outstanding research and leadership potential.

"We seek creative entrepreneurial scientists with research interests overlapping the broad range of LEP programs in space physics and planetary science. LEP space physics programs include heliospheric, magnetospheric, and ionospheric physics. LEP scientists are involved in a wide variety of space physics missions, including IMAGE, ACE, the Solar Terrestrial Probes (STEREO, MMS, etc.), and others. In planetary science, LEP scientists are team leaders on the Mars Global Surveyor, NEAR, Cassini, and MESSENGER missions. LEP scientists also propose, develop and fly instruments on balloons, sounding rockets, and the Space Shuttle, and acquire and analyze ground-based and laboratory data in support of NASA objectives. The LEP has active instrumentation, data analysis, and theory programs in both space and planetary physics; especially magnetic and electric fields, plasmas, long-wavelength radio waves, and infrared, x-ray and gamma ray spectroscopy. LEP scientists are pursuing emerging areas of research such as space weather, astrobiology, low frequency radio imaging of solar and magnetospheric processes, and the detection and characterization of extra-solar planets. Successful applicants will have opportunities to participate in all aspects of LEP research, including instrument development, data analysis, laboratory experiments, numerical simulations, and theory, and community leadership roles such as project scientists and study scientists."

PM me if you're interested. (Actually, I'd kinda like to shoot up them sounding rockets.)