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thank you

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my name is Colleen Townsley I'm part of

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the Hubble Space Telescope project I

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work as the Hubble integration and test

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team manager

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behind me is what we call the vest

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structure which is the vehicle

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electrical systems test structure

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and um inside of each of the Bays which

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correspond to The Bays that are actually

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on the Hubble telescope on orbit we have

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flight light units we have engineering

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test units we have simulators brass

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boards different things that comprise

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everything that we would need to attest

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on the ground before we would send

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something up to the spacecraft anything

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that's going to be going to the

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spacecraft like new flight software

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releases

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different procedure changes usually

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needs to be tested in this facility

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first before sending it on orbit well I

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started in October 1988 so almost 35

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years beginning with the work with

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Hubble I've been part of the actual

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integration of the Hubble on the ground

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launch of Hubble and then the subsequent

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service emissions with testing of the

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replacement hardware and of course

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subsequent maintenance of the hardware

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and all

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when I was in high school women weren't

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in these type of professions you were

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going to be a secretary or you're going

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to be a nurse you just

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didn't have that kind of like push to go

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into the scientists and things like

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zeros now thank goodness when I

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mentioned I'd started in 1988 everybody

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treated me with the same respect I still

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have to work hard to move to different

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positions and you know we work long

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hours there's an anomaly where weekends

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for holidays you know it's a lot of hard

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work but it's extremely rewarding and

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I'm always always still improving myself

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if I can inspire

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another young woman to go into the field

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any science field in fact

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that would be wonderful I mean Hubble

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still producing great science

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and we have overcome a lot of obstacles

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I mean it's a fascinating piece of

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the satellite still going strong and I