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my name is cynthia ton i'm probably what

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you consider a junior engineer here at

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goddard i'm working on a project called

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sample analysis at mars or sam as we

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like to refer to it

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purpose is to look for organics on mars

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pretty interesting

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what i do specifically

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on this project can be divided into two

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areas the first area is mechanical

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ground support equipment designing

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fabricating and

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organizing some of the procedures for

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when we're doing the testing and

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handling and shipping and i was talking

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about the other area i work on is what

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we call plumbing and it is as glamorous

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as it sounds within this instrument

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suite which is about the size of a

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microwave oven as my boss likes to say

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pretty good comparison

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there are something like on the order of

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50 55 i want to say gas processing lines

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so

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within this instrument you have this

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flow of gas from component to component

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to manifold throughout to perform the

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science and in between these components

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we have gas pipes that are in all kinds

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of convoluted shapes

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and it's my job to see that those are

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made

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this group on sam is just a really

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interesting group of people

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one of my co-workers here has described

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it as a group of people you would be

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willing to hang out with outside of work

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and that it's it's been really

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interesting for me working with people

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who are maybe a generation older than me

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but seeing that they're just genuinely

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nice really

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interesting people that we can go that i

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can go cycling with and kayaking and so

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that's been a really nice thing just