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you're looking at america's future

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the space station freedom will give us a

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permanent presence in space

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this is also a view of our future hello

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my name is joseph henderson this summer

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i work for marshall space flight center

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in the information and electronic

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systems laboratory of the data

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management branch

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this summer joe helped test this

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mechanism that could someday serve as

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freedom's front door and parking space

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rolled into one

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it's called the docking and birthing

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mechanism

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joe's knowledge of computers played a

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major role in completing his evaluation

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joe is not a nasa engineer

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not yet anyway joe is still in high

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apprenticeship research program or sharp

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budding scientists and engineers are

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getting a unique hands-on opportunity in

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their chosen field sharp began with its

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first students in 1980 and since more

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than 140 high school students have

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seized the sharp opportunity

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the primary goal is to offer

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underrepresented minority students the

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chance to participate in an intensive

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science and engineering apprenticeship

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eighteen-year-old christine penny worked

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in the atomic physics lab

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during her study she designed and

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developed hardware which automated this

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vacuum ultraviolet calibration facility

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on the side of this the monochromator

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which disperses the light will be

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attached a metal motor bracket

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which will have a motor that will turn

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the gears and change the wavelength of

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light using this knob automatically

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seventeen-year-old lemoine humphrey here

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with nasa's jerry hudgins designed

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hardware which will permit precise

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movements of materials in a vacuum i was

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assigned to do a package on the igds

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which is behind me it stands for the

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interactive graphics design system

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bore the counterboy is a half drilled

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hole that enables the screw not to be on

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the surface of the bracket which i was

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this is my mentor james blanche and we

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are next to the gerber pc 800 computer

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which our branch makes printed circuit

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i'm jim blanche i've been involved with

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the sharp program for

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five or six years

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i think it's an excellent program

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i have had some excellent students

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with us during that period we have

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gotten a lot of help from them and i

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think they've gotten a great deal out of

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the program

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each student works with a mentor a nasa

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scientist or engineer

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brian chang wants to be a scientist and

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during his study he worked closely with

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nasa's dr donald frazier

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his summer job gave him hands-on

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experience using holography and lasers

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for the purpose of testing a theory

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involving separation processes

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here sixteen-year-old julie mai and her

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mentor dr steven seuss

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examined solar data

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julie worked with computers to create

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these digitized pictures of the sun

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these students worked an eight-week

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schedule at the marshall space flight

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center in huntsville alabama

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here are the requirements to qualify for

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you must be a citizen of the united

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parents cannot be employed by nasa

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and the minimum age is 16.

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each student will be required to write

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an abstract of his or her assigned

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project and a research paper upon

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completion of study

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a newsletter is published with articles

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written by the students

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this lets sharp students nasa wide share

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program experiences and project success

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students participate in other enrichment

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activities lecture series field trips

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with your participation in sharp you

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enter a program that could lead to

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future nasa employment opportunities

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now let's hear from former sharp

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students

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dwindling artists trains astronauts at

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the payload crew training complex when i

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participated in sharp it was during the

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summer of 1980 i had just completed my

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junior year of high school i was one of

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the first participants in the program

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offered here at marshall space flight

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now i'm a permanent employee of nasa i'm

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working in the payload crew training

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complex at marshall we're responsible

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for training crew members on payloads

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aboard space lab our responsibility is

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the development of software models and

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hardware mockups of the experiments to

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fly aboard the space lab i'm also

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participating in the payload operations

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control center pod cadre where we

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ricky howard has always wanted to be an

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electrical engineer

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sharp prepared him for his career when i

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came here in 1981 i was a sharp student

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and i really enjoyed the program i

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thought it was a

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very interesting useful and

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stimulating program something that was

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very good to do as a high school student

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i learned a lot from the experience

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when i was a sharp student one of the

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projects i worked on

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led me into the field i'm working now

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which is the field of computers

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real world objects right now i'm working

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for nasa in the control electronics

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autonomous or automated rendezvous and

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docking system basically this system is

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then be used to go up and capture

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satellites to bring them either to the

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space station or back to the shuttle

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to find out more about this exciting

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summer program please write cm 22

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personnel office

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sharp allowed me hands-on experience

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with high-tech equipment exposure to the

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scientific and engineering world and a

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head start for employment with nasa this

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see different areas of nasa

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professional environment something you

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don't normally get to see as a high

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school student you usually have to wait

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until college or beyond

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i encourage any student who is given the

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opportunity to participate in the

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program to take advantage it worked for

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program is an idea that many students