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"Hubble Women Making History"

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Hi my name is Beverly Johnson and I am the 
Hubble Space Telescope payload team manager.  

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We support any flight software updates and any 
issues with the set of science instruments that  

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are on board the Hubble Space Telescope. Each 
science instrument has its own microprocessor  

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and each one has code that runs in them. If there 
are any issues in the performance of the science  

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instruments on board then another big part of our 
job is to get going an anomaly investigation which  

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can be quite interesting. Hubble has probably been 
the biggest learning platform for anomalies, we  

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review and analyze the events of the anomaly and 
all the data, come up with resolutions to correct  

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whatever happened and we're up and running again. 
The importance of maintaining the flight software  

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and the science instrument systems onboard Hubble 
is that that's basically, you know, how Hubble  

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works to collect you know the science images 
and data that the astronomers need. So our our  

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job is to make sure everything is functioning. I 
have actually been working on Hubble for 35 years  

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this year, I myself can't even believe that, and I 
never in my wildest dreams would have thought that  

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was possible to be there one place so long, but 
we have a lot of team members on Hubble that have  

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been here for years simply because Hubble keeps 
going and producing wonderful science it's just  

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given us the opportunity to continue to support 
it. As a woman on Hubble I feel very supported,  

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it makes a big difference that I'm working with 
other very strong leadership type of women as  

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well, I think as you get more and more experience 
on a job you get a little more respect and you you  

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find that people hear you better. It is a little 
bit of a challenge at first when you know you're  

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new to a job and you just have to keep with it. 
The advice I'd give to someone young trying to  

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get into a science career of any sort is just 
go with what you're good at if it's relatable,  

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because I think you need that basic talent or just 
skill and then you can build off of it from there.

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