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my name is carol tober i work at the

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nasa glenn research center i manage the

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manufacturing innovation project for the

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office of the chief technologist it's

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under game changing it's a tri-center

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project so i manage

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task leads from nasa glenn nasa langley

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and nasa marshall

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i've been an employee of nasa glenn

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since 1991. we're working in a very

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exciting area right now it's called

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manufacturing innovation but it's

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additive manufacturing additive

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manufacturing turns out a product that's

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lighter weight sometimes in traditional

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machining

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so as we learn more and more about it

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we're looking for more and more

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opportunities to implement it so

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employees are becoming familiar with how

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it works and what can be done with it

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its capabilities and limitations

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ultimately what nasa would like to be

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able to do is use additive manufacturing

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on orbit and what that would do is it

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would reduce the number of parts we'd

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have to carry up if there are things

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that break hopefully you could make them

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right there on orbit if there are things

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that need to be replaced we can actually

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make it right there in space also if we

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had a base somewhere and we needed to go

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from the moon to someplace else

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ultimately we'd like to be able to use

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something like additive manufacturing

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along with the regolith that's already

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on the surface of the moon to be able to

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construct things that we need rather

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than carrying everything up daily my job

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includes understanding where the

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technology is going how we're meeting

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our milestones how we're meeting our

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schedule staying on budget and just

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making sure that we progress the

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technology to where it needs to be for

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future nasa missions

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as a student in school my favorite

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subjects were always science it was

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always science because it answers the

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question why and that was important to

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me i always wanted to know why so

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biology chemistry physics were always my

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favorite subjects and you can't do those

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without math so i had to work hard at

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math i worked very hard to make sure

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that i had the math that would allow me

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to do what i like to do which was

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science

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throughout my career i've been inspired

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by

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a variety of people starting with my

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parents my brothers my relatives the

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community i grew up in

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and the various people i've met along

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the way who've been encouraging

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supportive and helpful

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i try to inspire as many people as i can

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as i go along i've been inspired by many