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my role as an aerospace engineer here at

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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includes the design fabrication building

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and testing of spaceflight hardware one

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of the exciting projects that I'm

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working on is the Lunar Reconnaissance

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Orbiter it's the first mission going

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back to the moon since astronauts went

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there are several decades ago I also

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have the duties of designing some of the

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electronic Hardware enclosures which

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meant I had to do a lot of thermal and

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structural analysis to make sure that

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the hardware that's flying on the

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satellite will not overheat or break

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outside of work I also get to pursue my

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other passion of athletics as a

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professional arena football player in

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order to thrive I have to do a lot of

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time management and that's something

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that you have to master in everything

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that you do you have multiple passions

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and you can't focus on one particularly

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one of the things a lot of people don't

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know about me is also i'm a pretty good

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artist and the design where it gives me

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the opportunity to i guess you could say

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flex my artistic muscle and coming up

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with a lot of creative and unique

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designs in order to further NASA's

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mission I didn't necessarily Excel to

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the top of anything I did but one thing

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I tried to do was make sure that I work

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sometimes the things you do now you may

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not have the foresight to realize it's

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setting you up for something great down