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scientists discover what there is but

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engineers create that which never was

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and in my mind engineers are creators

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we're almost like artists but instead of

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working with art we're working with

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scientific things or mechanical things

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or electrical things to try and create

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something and that's what's so rewarding

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about working at Goddard is that we get

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these fantastic problems to solve and we

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have to come up with really creative

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solutions to basically create something

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in this case a satellite that will do a

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certain job and do it well for us do the

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majority of the spacecraft was built

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here in house both the instrument module

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and the spacecraft bus were built here

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at Goddard the instruments were made out

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of house but then they're brought here

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to Goddard and integrate it into the

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satellite you know building up to some

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of our full systems tests it's five

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years worth of work all coming together

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in one final text and to be able to see

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it function the way you intended is very

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very exciting and that's a very high

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point in our Prius and building a

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spacecraft this mission we have a

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requirement to work on over 45 years and

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we want it to work for 10 or 11 years so

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we really have to know that it's not

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only going to work just now that we want

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it to work for a long long time we

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assembled the entire propulsion

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subsystem here for sto and in addition

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to that all of the instruments and all

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of the electronics boxes were assembled

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onto the spacecraft structure and the

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entire observatory was put together so

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really a Goddard we see the culmination

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of all kinds of work that's done really

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all around the world and we all bring it

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together here and test it end-to-end to

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make sure the entire system works well I

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started just interfacing with the

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instruments because I'm really I've

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worked on more instruments here

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I have spacecraft and so I was brought

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in to interface with the three outside

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instruments that were built outside of

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Goddard with our spacecraft team here

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and that was my job primarily and then I

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helped integrate them and then I got

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moved into helping integrate the entire

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spacecraft and making sure that

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everything is good to do in engineering

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I think if you have a strong tendency

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toward science and mathematics it's a

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very good position to be in I mean

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really engineering is basically Applied

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Physics you're taking a lot of physics

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principles and applying them to real

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life reality having you know enjoying

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hands-on activities building things

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yourself with your hands it's a very

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good lead into the game engineer that's

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how I started working with cars and

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things but you know if you have a real

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strong desire to do those kind of things

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and you apply some science and

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mathematics then you can go ahead and

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design and build and test your own

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things which is what we get here I would

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just really like to encourage the next

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generation I think that's something that

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NASA does in a way that only NASA can do

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just to inspire the younger generation

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to be interested in math and science and

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outer space and what's out there and

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just to inspire them guider is one of

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those places where you you don't only

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see the small part of the spacecraft

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building and the engineering you have

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two scientists here tues without the big

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vision and kind of are able to think

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about if I could just do this than I

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might be able to prove this or I might