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the thing that made a difference between

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me being let's say like a physicist or a

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scientist is probably

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the idea that as a as a visually

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impaired person i have to solve problems

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all the time

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my background is is uh uh electrical

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engineering with an emphasis on uh

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radio frequency and that interest goes

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back to when you know i've been

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fascinated with radio ever since i was a

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little child and got the ham radio

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license at 11. so i've been doing

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similar things to this for a long time

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i uh oversee the design and

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implementation of the ground stations

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for sdo and lro

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mostly in the area of rf radio frequency

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so that's the antennas the receivers the

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transmitters all that's involved in that

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my father right

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that really was the beginning of him he

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told us we could do anything we want and

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and to not settle for second best

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working for nasa has really been a

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fantastic experience i've gotten to i've

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gotten to travel all over the world i

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went to greece last year to help out the

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russians with when they requested for us

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to do the soyuz i

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got to go to antarctica to work on an

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antenna so it's been an adventure

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i've gotten to do what i love to do and

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travel all over the world and have a lot

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of fun doing it

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mentoring i've done some

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with the national federation of the

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blind the rocket on program

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the maryland business

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roundtable i guess my advice would be to

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anyone out there that they can do what

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they want they have to be persistent you

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know you know look for help you know

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look for people that care about your

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future

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you know work hard get a good education

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you know that would be my advice and

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that you know the opportunities are out