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>> When I was in Vietnam, when
I was really young in Vietnam,

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I was inspired by
NASA space program.

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I really wish I can be an
engineer or a worker for NASA

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but I know that this is
impossible for me to become one.

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When I resettled here through
the refugee resettlement

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program, I still
thought that I cannot,

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you know have any
chance to work for NASA.

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I want to pursue what they
call the American dream, okay,

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to have a good life here.

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And I quit my full time job

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and then attend the Long Beach
City College after the transfer

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to CSU Long Beach and finish
off my degree in BS degree

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for electrical engineering.

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The education is the yardstick

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that measure the
quality of life.

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This one says about
35 parameters

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and then the rest is flow.

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I am Richard Hang and I
am a electronic engineer

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at NASA Armstrong
Flight Research Center.

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I am currently serving
as the Chief of Sensor

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and System Development
Branch in Research

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and Engineering Directorate.

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When a project is coming in
for some kind of research,

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they want to have sensors
put around aircraft or put

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around equipment that they want

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to measure something
to collect the data.

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Okay let me check
here, connect this.

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We use a lot of different kind
of sensors, pressures, strain,

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you know temperatures and
then the data will flow

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and then they collect
it, archive,

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save it into the local drive.

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And that's when we
download it after the flight

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for post flight analysis.

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And then some time
the project required

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to transmit real time those
data down to the ground,

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so we transmit those to the
ground, to the control room

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in the floor and the engineer
can view that in real time.

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Hi Moshe.

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My branch has a really good
engineering staff, okay,

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and they have fun with their
assigned projects right now.

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Can you explain a little
bit to me how this works?

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>> It shows that it might
collide into an airliner,

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as you see as soon as they speed

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up it avoided the
collision with the airliner.

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>> Okay.

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>> And so it's just
a traffic alert.

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>> And then we also we
currently support Traveler.

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The Traveler is a
project that uses the UAV,

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the unmanned air vehicle,
to do the demonstration

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or help the FAA actually
figure out the way

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to certify the safety
feature of flying the UAV,

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you know in maybe in
our national airspace.

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[ Mechanical sounds ]

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We're working on, they call it
Schlieren imaging technique.

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That is the fly that they use
the sun as a background in order

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to detect the picture
of an airplane and try

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to see the wave, the sonic boom
clearly against the sun's image,

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they call it the
Schlieren's image.

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We have many other projects
that we are enjoying right now.

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Here we have two airplanes

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So right now I'm in it, in
NASA, you know work for NASA,

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it's my dream come true.

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I enjoy doing my job a lot here
and I'm glad that I be able