Behind the Seams

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So blanketing, basically anything that goes in space either has to have a special coating or blanket, and what we do here is make the blankets. So those layers are what are protecting instruments, different hardware, satellites, whatever the case may be. And we basically-- we're pattern makers. We’re designing for spacecraft like we would for a body. And right over here we have our layout table. Usually this is what we use to do our bulk layups, which are 12 feet by four feet, and they're how many layers the thermal engineer says we should have. They do testing to decide what they want that temperature to be regulated at, whether they want to keep it cold or they want to keep it warmer, and whatever the case may be, that's what we do. We have two sewing machines. This is our newest one right here, and this is the one we use a lot right now when we do need to sew. The interesting thing that's happened here lately is that I've gotten to work on the zero-gravity indicator doll, which was a lot of fun. Because that's probably the most sewing I've done here in years, which was really interesting, and I got to be more creative in a different way. This is the Moon right here, so working on that. There's going to be a SD card that's going to be put on the Rise doll, so I'm working through on that how to do that because it has to have a zipper. So I will be working on that today, figuring out how we're going to put the zipper on the bottom of the Moon. The SD card can go in here, but my concern is, because I didn't make it with material here, the SD card could slide through here. So this a little bit of trial and error because I'm not sure if it's going to work or not. One thing that makes me really proud is that something that I touched--that I made--is going to be around for a while, and it is going up in space. There's no other way to say it: it's a proud moment.