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>> Okay, close two-one, two-two,
and two-three valves on the box.

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Okay, let's perform a
walk-around of the test setup.

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I work in the Structural
Dynamics Group.

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We're a little bit
catawampus again.

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Yeah, can we verify this?

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This should be about
three-eighths.

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And, what I do is a variety of
things, such as ground testing

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and analyses to support aircraft
that want to fly, and really,

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it's in terms of evaluating
the structure of the airplane

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for how it wants to
vibrate in flight.

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And, we look at all of that
in the ground before we go

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into flight, so we kind of
have an idea what to expect,

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and make sure that
everybody's safe,

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that we can execute
the project safely.

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Okay, gap size on
this side, Ted?

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I'm Claudia Herrera.

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I'm an aerospace engineer
in the Aerostructures Branch

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at NASA Armstrong
Flight Research Center.

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Okay, you ready?

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Extending to quarter inch.

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Education was taught to
me to be very important,

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from a very young age.

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My mother was from
Mexico, and she only went

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to elementary level
of schooling,

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but she always taught me to
want more, and to pursue more,

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and to keep chasing
after something better.

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Bottom valve is closed.

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I grew up in a lot of
poverty, and I learned

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that education was pretty
much the ticket out of it.

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I was blessed to be born in this
country, where I had access.

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Okay, I'm ready when you are.

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Part of what I love about my job

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in the Flight Loads Lab
is the variety of vehicles

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that I get to work with.

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As an example, being

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on the Adaptive Compliant
Trailing Edge project, ACTE.

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>> That was one of my
favorite projects in the sense

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that I've gotten to
see the most of it,

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from its formulation
stages to all the way

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through flight testing.

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And, what excites me about
that particular project is the

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technology of creating

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and designing compliant lifting
surfaces and wing surfaces

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that will then be used in
future designs of aircraft,

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to make airplanes
more efficient,

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which directly impacts any of
us that ever get on an airplane.

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Stop! Another part to what I
do is a lot of ground testing.

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That's a big part of what I
do in the Flight Loads Lab.

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We do ground vibration tests.

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We do mass properties
tests, and some examples

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of that are the Orion
crew module,

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where we did a pretty extensive
series of ground testing.

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And, in that particular project,

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my role was to oversee the
execution of those tests,

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beginning with the
planning, the coordination

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of all the different people,
and all the different teams

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that are involved, and all
of that, which I also enjoy.

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It's a very fun thing
when you sit at your desk,

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and you plan what a
test should look like,

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and then you see all the
pieces of it come together,

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because of all the
people that come together.

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And, in my free time, I'm a
big fan of just running and,

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in particular, distance running.

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It's a good way to stay healthy,

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which I've learned
it's important to be,

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to have a good balance, and
to take care of our bodies.

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About six years ago, I ran
a 5K, and then I got the bug

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for a half-marathon, which
I never thought I could do,

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and I did that, and then I got
the bug for the full marathon.

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To be able to set that goal,
to be able to set a plan,

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to be able to execute it
and accomplish that goal,

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was pretty rewarding for me.

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And, just on a daily basis, just
to have that place where, just,

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whatever I need to just rehash,
visit, or get rid of in my head,

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just to have that
moment, to be able to do

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that has been a source
of balance.

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I do get the sense that my work
is a part of a bigger picture.

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It's very rewarding, and it's
very much the reason why I went

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into engineering is, how can
we make this world better?