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For someone who learned to drive a Model T car, to someone who saw

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the space shuttle and saw a man landing on the moon,

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there's really no words to explain my time at Goddard.

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Hello, my name's Alberta Moran.  I've worked at Goddard

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for forty plus years, both as an employee and a volunteer.

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I came to Washington D.C. during World War II.

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Worked for the Post Office Department as a GS-1

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making $1,440 a year.

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Well, at the Post Office Department, I was detailed

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to the White House and then I was recruited to work

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at the Beltsville Space Center.  It was only Beltsville Space Center for

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about two weeks and it became the Goddard Space Flight Center.

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I worked for the director for forty something years and as his

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Administrative Assistant; he insisted I also

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work for the 5,000 employees that was here.

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And I reviewed all the letters and packages that had to go out

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from Goddard.  I believe one of the more interesting and proud moments

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of my career here at Goddard was being the International

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Coordinator.  I got to meet President Nixon,

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and we had like, Mrs. Goddard was here very often.

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We even had Star Trek here, the whole crew, which was fun.

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And um... well let's see, I am still here for several reasons.

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The people are really great and in the early days of Goddard, we were

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a family and you know, you don't just divorce your family when

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you get older or retire.  So, I came back to volunteer at the

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Visitor Center and I still do the Maryland Space Business Roundtable.

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Many times a student will ask me, well,

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can we work at NASA?   I am not a scientist.  You don't have to be a

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scientist, an engineer, a mathematician. The main thing is you

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have to decide what is in the future for you, what do you

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really want to do and then go after it.