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i'm a rover navigation and robotic arm

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when

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of those people that

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sits on console and waits for the data

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to arrive and analyzes it

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the last few months i've been focused on

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the spirit extraction from the site that

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it's currently embedded at

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it's very emotional i mean the engineers

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here at jpl are very attached to their

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rovers

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i grew up just outside of washington d.c

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in a

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city called tacoma park maryland

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it took me about 16 years to finish my

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entire

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higher education from first year of

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college through finishing my phd

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and during the phd program i was

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fortunate to

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work on robotic vehicle programs at the

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university of florida that were funded

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by the

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air force

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one of the jpl reps

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also

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had some work

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that was funded by the air force and

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we connected at one of the meetings i

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got an invitation from

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this engineer and came out to jpl did an

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interview it just was a dream job

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it's a thrill to work on the mars

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exploration rover project and to be

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involved in

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going beyond