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from Leonardo beretta and structural

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analysts in the polish insistence

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Department America Alvarez

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I work in turbomachinery design and

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development my name is Armando Martinez

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and I work with the year 40 which is the

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ground operations and logistics branch I

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work in the solid propulsion analysis

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team within the structures and dynamics

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analysis branch and I look at various

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projects such as the booster separation

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water currently being used on the Space

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Shuttle as well as the all are settling

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motor which will be used in the Ares one

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so we typically support any rocket

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engines that have turbo pumps on them

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anything existing from you know Space

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Shuttle - now that requires a pump we

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what we look is like the requirements

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the checkouts that you have to do to be

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able to assemble this vehicle and make

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sure that each component communicated

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with each other

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my family's from Chihuahua Mexico I came

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here from University of Texas at El Paso

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I gotta do it with a Bachelor of Science

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in mechanical engineering I was born in

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Mexico and then when I was seven my

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parents for a better future I grew up in

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New Jersey in a city called West New

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York New Jersey and went to Penn State

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University and studied aerospace

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engineering I was recruited to come here

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into the the same Department on them now

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the propulsion systems Department and

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have been ever since I went to the

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University of New Mexico it was

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difficult at first because none of my

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brothers finished college or university

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side I kind of lacked that mentorship

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was like or finding the right way to get

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to where I wanted to go so for me it was

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just kind of taking classes because

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that's what I thought it was the right

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thing to do

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I've always wanted to work here even

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since I was in grammar school and when I

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was in high school you know we had an

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aerospace class and I took as many you

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know science and math classes as I could

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I ended up just loving it so you can't

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really find many other places that do

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the kind of work that you do here

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I mean you employ every single branch of

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engineer

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of science I mean name would degree and

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NASA has it here when I first got here a

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lot of the activity was Space Shuttle

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Hardware which is also exciting because

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it's already in flight and there's

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launches and launch activities and tests

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but doing something from the ground up

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has been a big challenge and I mean I

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feel honored just to be able to be part

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of that and I like that it's always

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something different and you're always

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learning something new it annoys me when

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you see somebody saying you know I'm

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just gonna finish high school and I'm

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gonna go work when you know they might

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be the smartest person or you know they

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get good grades and they just limit

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themselves to just high school when

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there's greater opportunities and

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greater possibilities a little bit of

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sacrifice is worth it in the end and to

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me that's just in itself rewarding we

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really do have the best in the world

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working here in Marshall so it's a lot

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of fun it's exciting the important thing

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is to get good grades and do good in

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school and you can have that chance that