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"...over the last pass, so..."  Working here at the Space Operation Institute

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allows the students here to hit the ground running for anything that's NASA involved.

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What we have at the SOI is rare, where we are able to actually

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control or at least monitor a satellite in real time.

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The connection between Capitol College and Goddard is that we

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basically do everything that they are doing right here, just as students.

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You know, we're not in the educational program.  We're here to do things

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and operate, that's true, but we're training engineers for the future

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is what basically it amounts too.  They were interested in having a process to

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get more engineers into the space arena, and also to

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reach their educational outreach goals - to help colleges and universities

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educate the next generation of space engineers.  Normally they are assigned

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and have a mentor or they are supervised by a mentor,

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and they go through the same process that we have to train

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new engineers.  This is no different than having

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a new hire than having an intern.  They get to work side by side

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with NASA Goddard engineers.  They attend meetings with the engineers,

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their opinions are asked, they are appreciated,

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they work as part of the team on the TRMM mission.  My title is

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for the Space Operations Institute is the lead sytem administrator.

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Atually what I go through and do is maintain the systems for software and

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hardware-wise to make sure the security standards are in place.  I am in

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charge of testing where we have to look for any loop holes in any of the code

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and give it back as a product.  And they have to rebuild it if anything is not correct

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I communicate with the engineers over at Goddard

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and I get all the regulations and requirements and I give that to our

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development team.  It's amazing.  I learn so much

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that I would probably never learn anywhere else.  It's just overwheming,