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My name is Judy Bruner, I work here

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at NASA Goddard and I'm the Director of Safety and Mission Assurance

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on center.

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(music)

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That means that I have the organization

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that's responsible for overall safety of all

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employees at all of our sites, as well as

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mission assurance for all of our flight missions, so we

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insure that the mission we are developing

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will be able to do what it's designed to

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do. So we provide a level of independence

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and over site and through the mission live cycle

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at various stages, observing the steps that are being

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taken to implement our flight missions. And again

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the goal is mission success.

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I can remember driving

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through the gate and I just could not stop smiling.

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I was actually here, I was actually working for NASA.

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It was awesome.

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I was working on Hubble Space Telescope.

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So, when I left active duty and

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came to NASA as a contractor, it was the first time

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in ten years that I actually got to use my computer science degree.

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So, my initial job was to design

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and develop the software, the ground system

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for Hubble Space Telescope. So, I wrote the code

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that they used in the control the center, that actually command

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the Hubble, for the first few years. I tested

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every single line of that code myself.

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I was putting myself

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through college, and at the end of my junior year I was trying

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to figure out how I was going to pay for my senior year, and an Army

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recruiter came to the dorm and was telling us about

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a program in the Army. If you enlisted then they would pay

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for senior year. So, that certainly got my attention, I thought

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that was appealing and went to talk to some of the other

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services. I was very intrigued by what the Navy recruiter

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had to say and so, I enlisted in the Navy at the end of

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my junior year in college. In the fall completed my senior

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year and graduation day I got my

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degree in computer science in the morning and

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I was commissioned as an ensign in the United States

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Navy in the afternoon.

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The most important lesson that I think

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I've learned in my life is to

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take advantage of every opportunity that you have and

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when a door opens take advantage

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of that as well. My career has not

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necessarily gone the way I anticipated, because

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along the way opportunities presented themselves

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that I never anticipated. But I was in the right place

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at the right time and took advantage of those

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and it all worked together to help me move forward

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and do the things that ultimately I wanted to do.

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My advice

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to women would go back to

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the principal that's guided me through my career

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and that is just be

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open to opportunities. Even if it

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isn't something you think you can do or you've ever

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do or thought you would want to do. If an opportunity presents

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itself take advantage of it and be aware, because

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sometimes doors open that are unexpected

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and take advantage of that. It's

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an opportunity to learn to figure out

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what your own capabilities are and in some

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cases it may lead you down a totally different path than you

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thought you were on initially, but that's ok

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and again the main thing is

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don't be locked in, always be ready

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to make a course correction. If you're given that

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opportunity.

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