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When I was in third grade

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I made my own eclipse viewer and

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waited anxiously and patiently for hours, for the total solar

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eclipse. It was an amazing atronomic phenomena.

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My name is Ying Shi I am a software

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safety engineer working for Goddard Safety and Mission Assurance

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Directory.

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I was preparing my dissertation

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and I got a call from my former lab mate who was working

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for Goddard at that time, and asked me if I have

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any interest in working for Goddard. I was so

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excited, I couldn't believe that I can move towards my

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childhood dream, that close. I said "Yes!" "Absolutely!" "When can I start?"

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Inspired by my father

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who enjoyed spending his spare time

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building electronics like TV's and radios. I always wanted

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to be his little helper. So, I was struggling for a long time

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whether to go for astronomy or engineering for

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college. So with considering that engineering

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probably is a more practical discipline. I decided to

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go for engineering in college. But I never thought about I

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could be an engineer that works for NASA years later.

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I think some of my great accomplishment is

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to apply what I have learned into areas of software safety and

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reliability into real NASA projects. And Goddard always has

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a one-of-a-kind missions, and different risk

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levels, so most important and interesting

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part of my job is to find a unifying way

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to conduct software safety engineering across

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NASA Goddard projects.

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If you really like science,

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and like space exploration. If you want to

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know what's happening beyond earth, NASA is a great place

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for you. Try things out and find out exactly what you like.

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