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Growing up in Ecuador, I didn't know much\h
about NASA. However, I always liked space.\h\h

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Just, you know the Star Trek, Star Wars so\h
all that thing really I love that you know.

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My name is Vicente Suarez. I've been\h
here at NASA for a little more than\h\h

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20 years. I'm a structural dynamicist. What that\h
means, I do vibration testing and shock testing,\h\h

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and also analysis, variation analysis of a\h
different payloads to make sure they they\h\h

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survive the launch environments and they\h
successfully arrive to their destination.\h\h

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I've been working in Orion for so many years and\h
supporting that project and others like on the\h\h

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Mars tires project, and things hopefully within\h
the 10 years I see the outcome of those, right.

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One of the hardest things that I have done, but\h
it would still be favorite, would I do it again,\h\h

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probably not, is going to Machu Picchu.\h
That was great, it was really hard. One of\h\h

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my other favorite place, the one that you saw the\h
picture going to Chimborazo. Really challenging,\h\h

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but just being there was amazing.
The data you collect, data does\h\h

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have stories and the data talks to you, and\h
tells you what's going on. You know, so that\h\h

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it's weird but funny and so true in my area\h
of what I do it every day. And I you know what\h\h

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I was told that, say it to the younger engineers\h
that I trained he said let the data talk to you.

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I really love, enjoy what I do. I really do and\h
sometimes that has been my priority in life, then\h\h

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family should be priorities. So I think that's the\h
biggest challenge, that life is not only working,\h\h

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and that's hard when you really\h
love enjoy what you do when\h\h

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it seems like to me not coming to work, is coming\h
to a playground and play with things. You know\h\h

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it's amazing. I'm so fortunate\h
and lucky to do what I do.