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>> Kyle, all these have
to go to the common power.

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I never knew I wanted
to join the agency.

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I was a working mom.

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Education wasn't my strong
point, but I am smart,

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I am talented it turns out.

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Out of the chamber this way.

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I do have a purpose, beyond
being a mom, and that came later

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in life to learn that I could
be a mom and have a purpose.

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I'm April Torres.

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I'm an electronics
technician telemetry specialist

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at NASA Armstrong.

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I discovered I had an aptitude
for programming and software,

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once I started here,
and I think it had

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to do is I had a clean slate.

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I wasn't trained in anything, so
I was trainable, I was moldable.

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I had an extreme need to learn
and show that I had value

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and I was valuable for the team.

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Keep me on, so I was always
striving to do better.

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And whenever I saw a need,
I would always like kick in

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and say, "I can help,
I can help."

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My skillset kept growing,
and growing, and growing,

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which made me more
valuable to another team,

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and would make somebody
I worked with say, "Hey,

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you want her on your team."

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And that's one of the reasons I
ended up in the job I'm in now

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and because I was very
good at what I did,

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the instrumentation
branch loaned me

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out to the telemetry shop for
the first crew escape vehicle,

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Pad Abort Mission in order
to help them test all

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of the modules that were going
to be on board that system.

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>> Launch, launch, launch.

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>> By the time we were done
testing in the environmental lab

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and doing all the functional
checks after open covers,

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we were confident when
that system went off,

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it was going to be a system.

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>> Reorientation complete.

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Apogee.

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[Inaudible] jettison,
FEC jettison.

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>> We are currently
working on the second phase

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of the crew escape vehicle,
which is called the Ascent Abort

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and our setup is very involved.

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There's a lot of wires,
and a lot of connections,

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and a lot of points of
failure along the line.

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When we're testing
an environmental,

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we connect harnesses that
connect to each module.

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So, those harnesses are all
incorporated into a system

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that comes into our Omega system
that translates all the data

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from the voltage
and the millivolts

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that we were injecting, and
we're watching it on our side

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to see that there's no dropouts,

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there's no intermittent
failures,

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there's no complete failures.

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So, they put it through extremes
in environmental, thermal,

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vibration to ensure that
anything that gets put

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on an aircraft or a spacecraft
is going to succeed in flight,

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that it will work as expected.

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But you have to pay attention
to every little detail

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because if you miss one thing,

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it could be the reason
it failed.

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How privileged I am to
actually get to work

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at a place that's doing
the research we're doing

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and transforming things that are
going to happen in their future.

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I've actually had a part in it.

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My fingers just have
touched things