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before I started working here at NASA I

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had my own sewing business I was helping

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in a folkloric festival in Argentina so

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I was running the horses I will say a

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bartender at a music festival

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my name is Paula King I am a thermal

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blanket technician I'm Geronimo

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Villanueva I'm a planetary scientist my

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name is joy

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and I'm a video producer at NASA I am

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from Capitol Heights Maryland I was born

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in Mendoza Argentina

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I'm from Devon which is on the southwest

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coast of the UK so as a fashion design

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major ended up designing clothes for

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satellites it's electrical engineer and

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actually was my undergrad and then my

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master was in telecommunications then I

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went to Germany this is what I did my

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PhD and then it became astrophysics I

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did my undergrad in biology which I

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loved but I also loved many other areas

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in science too so I decided to do a

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science communication course for my

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masters well I ended up working here in

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NASA it sort of happened by mistake used

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to always check the Washington Post ads

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for jobs and they had one said are you a

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Star Trek fan do you think about space

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and I said come work here at NASA as a

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thermal blanket technician I had no idea

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what it was so I called came in for the

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interview and I got the job so when I

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moved to Germany and start doing my PhD

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I discovered the European Space Agency

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the German space agency and start

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working in connection with NASA so when

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I finished my PhD this is when they

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offer me a fellowship to come here to

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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center it was

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supposed to be for two years and I've

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been here for 15 when I first started

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working at NASA I started out as the

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earth science multimedia fellow so I was

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on the earth science news team covering

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breaking news when I thought of NASA I

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thought a space I thought of futuristic

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things I thought of the Jetson

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everything you hear NASA you think about

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these genius people as a kid I never

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thought I could work for NASA when I go

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to offer to do the fellowship here

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I actually was scared to come here

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because I'm gonna say oh my god I'm

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actually qualified to be working at NASA

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okay what it means to me now being a

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NASA employee is that the sky's the

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limit

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and once you arrive here and you realize

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that it's obviously just people that

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have passion for space

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the main thing that defines the NASA

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scientists to work at NASA I think you

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have to be really curious about the

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world you just have to find your niche

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and where you can fit in here cuz you

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can't fit in here if you have a passion

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for space don't let anybody tell you

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what are your limits there is definitely

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a job for you there are so many jobs

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here the fact that I am here doing it

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and I'm getting to touch things that are

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going into space working here now I'm

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doing things that people would never

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even dream up and I'm a fashion designer