1 00:00:14,330 --> 00:00:20,330 Bob Frederick: Hi, I’m Bob Frederick the director of the UAH Propulsion Research Center. 2 00:00:20,410 --> 00:00:20,670 I’d like to talk to you a little bit today about our students and their dreams and how 3 00:00:25,950 --> 00:00:26,233 higher education and NASA research can help them fulfill those dreams 4 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,066 and where they plan on going in the future. 5 00:00:33,350 --> 00:00:35,830 Shawn Ikard: I was always interested in space so I knew I wanted to do something that involved propulsion. 6 00:00:37,870 --> 00:00:38,446 Caroline Hood: I was just watching TV and the news came up about NASA and all the cool stuff that they did and I was telling 7 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:45,720 my parents that I want to work for NASA someday. 8 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:49,840 Chad Eberheart: When I was young I always dreamed of being a fighter pilot. 9 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:54,093 Tony Marshall: My class took a field trip to the Marshall Space Flight Center 10 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:56,430 to Space Camp, I looked over at a friend of mine and I said I want to do that some day. 11 00:01:00,890 --> 00:01:07,756 Huy Hunh: My childhood dream was to become a pilot or an astronaut and now that dream is being fulfilled 12 00:01:12,430 --> 00:01:13,180 with NASA supplying me with an education and research experience 13 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:18,133 that is going to help astronauts be sent into space. I’m getting great research 14 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:20,233 experience and design experience that is going to help me in the job field later. 15 00:01:23,020 --> 00:01:23,290 I can imagine the best benefit that NASA has is that they are also getting some very viable research 16 00:01:29,350 --> 00:01:33,750 for future design of injectors and future design of rocket engines. 17 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:37,550 Ashley Penton: Oh, when I was a kid I wanted to be an engineer just like my daddy. You know, I was always 18 00:01:38,970 --> 00:01:39,573 interested in science and chemistry and mathematics especially. We are looking 19 00:01:43,500 --> 00:01:44,163 at burn rates for solid propellants and it is helping NASA because they are 20 00:01:47,770 --> 00:01:49,633 actually looking at using solid propellants for some of their future rockets. In the 21 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:55,973 laboratory, I get to build solid propellant samples and put them into 22 00:01:56,300 --> 00:02:01,100 a pressure vessel and then we get to test those samples and analyze a lot 23 00:02:01,570 --> 00:02:01,983 of data which involves a lot of mathematics. 24 00:02:04,090 --> 00:02:09,490 I want to be a rocket scientist and working in PRC I’m getting to fulfill that. 25 00:02:09,490 --> 00:02:14,223 John Brooks: When I was young, I wanted to… I don’t know I was more 26 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:15,013 of an explorer, more of an adventurer. I wanted to reach out into 27 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:19,680 the unknown and find something new. As I got older and got into college, 28 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:22,136 I found out that I liked engineering, science and math and it was such a really 29 00:02:26,490 --> 00:02:27,216 good outlet to be able to come here and for NASA and Huntsville to both give me the 30 00:02:31,230 --> 00:02:31,490 opportunity to be able to work on furthering my aspirations of adventure and, I mean, 31 00:02:36,570 --> 00:02:38,276 think about it, years from now we will be exploring the stars and this is the first step. 32 00:02:40,730 --> 00:02:42,303 Dr. Kader Frendi: When I grew up, and this is 7,000 miles away from here, I looked up in the sky during the Apollo days, 33 00:02:47,090 --> 00:02:48,710 I looked up in the sky and I said to myself, “I want to work for the organization that sends 34 00:02:51,670 --> 00:02:51,743 people up there.” And guess what? That dream stayed alive and I just kept going and going and 35 00:02:57,930 --> 00:02:58,076 going and I did work for NASA. I work for NASA, I still work for 36 00:03:02,050 --> 00:03:05,583 NASA even as a professor so never give up your dreams. 37 00:03:06,870 --> 00:03:07,190 I mean, just keep going. 38 00:03:08,150 --> 00:03:09,086 Ashley: I want to be a rocket scientist. 39 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:10,836 John: I think we have a great future. 40 00:03:11,390 --> 00:03:13,273 Huynh: I’m happy that I was able to get this opportunity. 41 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:15,333 This is what I like to do and this is what I want to continue to do. 42 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:17,633 Jason Bush: I hope to do this the rest of my life. 43 00:03:17,860 --> 00:03:21,226 Bob Frederick: When I was a child, people were going to the moon. And so it is no surprise that after growing up in 44 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:27,893 an environment like that I was able to go to college and universities and get my hands 45 00:03:28,230 --> 00:03:29,550 on things and now I end up in the beautiful position of being a director of a research center 46 00:03:33,110 --> 00:03:35,043 at a college where I can help other young people achieve their childhood dreams of working on rockets 47 00:03:37,910 --> 00:03:40,376 and being in the propulsion industry.