An Average Working Day on Visionary NASA Projects
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An engineer with 12 years at NASA and six missions describes doing radiation chamber testing for satellites, fit‑checking harnesses with hovering “hockey puck” sims, and integrating electronics for the James Webb Space Telescope that survives a months‑long thermal‑vac test and will sit at 1.5 million km L2. MMS flies four tetrahedral craft weighing ~1,300 kg each with 29 instruments to study magnetic reconnection; GPM supplies 20–22 years of precipitation data used to predict rapid hurricane intensification. Clean‑room work requires a bunny suit and creative low‑cost test setups.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Intro
- 4:42How are we preparing to explore the cosmos?
- 11:31How are we understanding our home planet better?
- 21:24Where did it all begin?
- 33:48Clean room (bunny) suit
- 39:38Outro
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