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brodnax and I'm an electrical Power

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Systems engineer on the Hubble Space

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Telescope

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being an electrical Power Systems

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engineer entails making sure everything

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goes smoothly on the telescope basically

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keeping it safe something I do every

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year is manage the solar eclipses for

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the telescope to make sure that it can

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powerwise make it through that me and

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the other Electrical Power Systems

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Engineers manage any anomalies that

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might arise that are power or electrical

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related or even thermal related I think

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a lot of people think it's just a

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telescope floating around in low earth

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orbit and it just kind of does its own

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thing but in reality there are tons of

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people keeping it safe and healthy day

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to day with whatever problems may arise

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it goes through hot Seasons cold Seasons

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there could be electrical problems or

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pointing and control problems with it

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there's a huge team of people that keeps

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that going and seamless so that the

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public gets these really great images

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you know year after year what I find

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most rewarding about the work is

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probably being able to flex my

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engineering brain every day I think of

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working on such a historic project that

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has a lot of information that needs to

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be learned about it back to its

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conceptualization all the way up to now

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in 2023 and is really like a privilege

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and also keeps me on my feet every day

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in my day-to-day I wake up and I pet my

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dog for a good like 15-20 minutes if I'm

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coming in office it's me versus 295 for

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a good 45 minutes once I come in I

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usually get to talk with my teammates

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about the things that have been

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happening for the past week I really

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enjoy being able to collaborate with

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everybody in the mornings then I sit

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down and do some work chug away at some

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more coding or some more numbers

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hopefully have a cool meeting and get to

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schmooze some other NASA people and then

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also head home and go to the gym or

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trivia I think one thing to take away

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from you know being a woman in stem is

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that you're stronger and more

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knowledgeable than you think you are the

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smartest person in the room all of us

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are the smartest person in the room and

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I think you know worrying about

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confidence level is not as important

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just showing up flexing the knowledge

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that you know you already have is really

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important my favorite Hubble image is

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probably the butterfly nebula it's you

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know one of the older ones but I love