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I am Erisa Hines and I am a Mobility Systems
Engineer here at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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I had an opportunity to come onto the Mars
Science Laboratory mission about two years

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before we launched and I came on as part of
the Cruise Operations Team so I was testing

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the attitude control system as a System Engineer
and there was an opportunity to come work

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on the surface side of the mission.

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I get to work with the rover and watch it
drive around the Mars Yard and help understand

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and develop some of that new capability.

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It’s pretty exciting to know that’s going
to be used on Mars to further science.

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There’s a little bit of development going
on so certain capabilities the rover doesn’t

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have yet on the surface we use this rover
Maggie to test any of those new capabilities

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in the software.

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I think because of my personality and because
of how I was supported by the women in my

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life growing up I’ve never really felt any
real challenges when it came to the idea of

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there being fewer women in certain fields
or in the filed I choose to pursue.