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hi my name is Courtney Stern

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I'm the NASA lead operations engineer

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for Orion landing and recovery I've been

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with NASA for almost 20 years now I

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started as a summer intern the first

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summer after I graduated from high

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school and did one more summer

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internship before transitioning to the

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co-op program for the rest of my time

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until I graduated and got hired on the

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nasa full-time the people asked me how

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did you how did you start with nasa you

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know how do you how do you get in with

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NASA I think you know the best thing is

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take an opportunity to get started as a

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co-op or as an intern take take a summer

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internship take a take a co-op whatever

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you can do to get your foot in the door

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and make those contacts and you know get

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established and you know use that to

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your advantage take every opportunity

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people give you volunteer if someone

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asks you for something if you want to

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participate in something help with

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something say yes some of the best

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opportunities I've had or because I said

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sure I'll try that I'll learn that I'll

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do that and those turned out to be some

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of the most rewarding experiences being

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a female in this field definitely a

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minority sometimes that's kind of a cool

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thing you know you get to be unique and

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improve yourself and get a lot of really

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neat experiences and I think that

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sometimes

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people have a lot of respect for that

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right now we're all really focused on

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getting through these next few tests and

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labeling us to be ready for the recovery

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premium one and I think we're all just