Completely off the subjectBut how did you get to work with NASA? And what were you doing? Its just that its always been a dream of mine to work with NASA in an engineering job, wondering what I would need to get the chance. Thanks in advance :)
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Tue 16 Feb 2010, 2:11,
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They actually came to my school and picked some industrial design students to work with them on blue sky ideas for incremental lunar habitation. It lasted a few months and then they set us free. I suspect, in retrospect, that it was all simply an advertising campaign to show off how forward thinking and innovative they were to use ideas from enthusiastic young designers or some such.
It was pretty frustrating trying to pry reasonable information out of the engineers that dealt with us directly. We'd ask questions like "what's the internal structure of a prospective fuel tank like? could the tank, after getting voided on landing, be used as a storage tank for grey water or is it unworkable." We'd tend to get brushed off with questions like these. It was a might tedious.
I know some JPL engineers at Ames. It seems like they got their jobs through social connections. I'd recommend joining groups like Dorkbot and Battlebots. I'd also visit conferences like DefCon and be a part of hackerspaces like Noisebridge. They're good places to meet up with exciting engineers some of whom might be or be friends with NASA people and offer a leg up. It's also a good idea to make projects that nerds find captivating and insinuate that you're looking for work with NASA along with the project. Spacebridge is kinda a good example www.youtube.com/watch?v=go56JzqoFK0
(It was pretty frustrating trying to pry reasonable information out of the engineers that dealt with us directly. We'd ask questions like "what's the internal structure of a prospective fuel tank like? could the tank, after getting voided on landing, be used as a storage tank for grey water or is it unworkable." We'd tend to get brushed off with questions like these. It was a might tedious.
I know some JPL engineers at Ames. It seems like they got their jobs through social connections. I'd recommend joining groups like Dorkbot and Battlebots. I'd also visit conferences like DefCon and be a part of hackerspaces like Noisebridge. They're good places to meet up with exciting engineers some of whom might be or be friends with NASA people and offer a leg up. It's also a good idea to make projects that nerds find captivating and insinuate that you're looking for work with NASA along with the project. Spacebridge is kinda a good example www.youtube.com/watch?v=go56JzqoFK0
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Tue 16 Feb 2010, 2:22,
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