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"Houston, Tranquility base here, the Eagle has landed." "Roger"
[Peddie] When I was a little girl and people were always asking me what do you want to be when you grow up?
And I always go I'm gonna work up there.
As an engineer you dream of a job like this
where you get to follow in the footsteps of some of your childhood
heroes. And and of course for me the Apollo missions seeing these these folks
on TV step on the moon and worked for NASA as an engineer it's just a dream to
be able to say you know I want to do that too and Here I am.
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hi I'm Cathy Petty and I've got the coolest job at NASA. I get to work on a project called
the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter project or LRO. We're going back to the moon.
and guess what we're doing right now? We're building all the parts of the spacecraft
at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. The LRO instrument suite is
comprised of six instruments and one technology demonstrator. And they are
geared towards providing us of a variety of data sets ranging from a thermal map
of the moon, global topography and most importantly looking for resources like
water ice on the moon. The entire suite should provide more of an atlas as
opposed to a map. So that we know where to go on the moon. Where to have the safe
landing sites and where to put things like lunar outpost in the hopes of
having human exploration in the near future.
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All of our instruments have been built. So right now they're they're all being
qualified. Our propulsion tanks, all the fuel that's going to take us to the moon
and get us into the orbit already done completed. So we're we're in the throes
of the assembly sequence. All the engineers and technicians and all of our
our business folks are working very hard to make sure that we successfully
integrate it and test it and get ready for our launch next year.
[rocket launch]
If I were to dream, I would love to see that LRO lived way beyond, decades beyond
its it's supposed life. And was able to do more than what we said it would do
and maybe discover something that would not only enable human exploration
but do something that just made it happen like a lot quicker or we look
back on the Earth and we were able to help life here on Earth because of
something that we never even thought of because of of the little project called
LRO. That that would be great that would be awesome.
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