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my name is Carla cook and I'm a landing

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and recovery development project manager

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at Kennedy Space Center for the

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exploration ground systems program

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started working at NASA right out of

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college at Kennedy Space Center I had

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applied to co-op there and head was not

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accepted I went to our career fair

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started talking to NASA and I had

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experience as a supplier quality

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engineer and they were looking for a

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quality engineer and it was out of the

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blue started talking to the hiring

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individual and the organization had an

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interview right there and he said here

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go fill this out go online apply and now

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here and have loved just about every

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minute of it my dad inspired me to

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become an engineer he has he's a huge

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fan of NASA and so about about 10 years

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old I realized yeah I want to go work at

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NASA and I would do things with him

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around the house and what he worked on

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vehicles last time as mechanically

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inclined as he is but I figured

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engineering there's gonna be a lot of

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fun and I'm gonna try my hand at this

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and see what happens so I started as a

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quality engineer and I moved through

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operations and into development and as a

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project manager I lead a team of

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engineers that are responsible for

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developing all of the hardware we will

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use when we recover the Orion spacecraft

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for anyone looking to come work at NASA

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we're really anywhere in an engineering

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field I'd say go study those stem

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curriculum engineering mathematics

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science technology make sure it's

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something you love though it's gonna be

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a lot more rewarding for you and a lot

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more fun if you really enjoy what you're

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doing

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many other places that stop work middle

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of meetings you're done who stop hate

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there's a launch outside go walk outside

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and go see it and to see that it's just

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so inspiring and so rewarding even if

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you weren't part of the launch you're

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like I'm a little part of this and it's

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just spectacular scene

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this is just so much fun