I think the
best innovations come from the unlikeliest of sources.
And I think we all have some really great ideas in all of us.
Ideas that could probably change the world.
My name is Matthew Bailey and I'm
the operations manager for the National Transonic Facility Complex.
In my current position, I manage operations
at two cryogenic wind tunnels here at NASA Langley.
So at these facilities, we specialize in high rentals number or flight.
Reynolds, no testing, which is to say we're the world's best
at matching scaling effects for aerodynamic problems.
So this is a control room of the ATF, and it's probably because
the control room of the most complex wind tunnel on the planet right now
at the MTF, we're testing the space launch system or less.
So it's really exciting
because the goal that we have is to set human beings back on the moon.
By 20, 24.
And the effort that we're doing right now is a huge part of that.
Even as a child, I remember being fascinated with everything that flies.
I'd go to airports and see airplanes take off and land,
and seeing my first rocket launch was incredible.
So now to be in a position where
I get to be a part of that process, it's is truly humbling.
My first passion was piloting.
I wanted to become a pilot.
I wasn't until entering college that I realized that the engineering side
of this world was exciting to me, was time consuming, tedious.
NASA became the pinnacle of my goal.
About mid college, I did an internship with NASA.
I realized that working on the types of projects, the types of research
that NASA is doing now and in the future is something that I really wanted to do.
So this being here is really is kind of a dream come true.
I think NASA is a great place for ideas to come together and for innovation
to become a reality, because I think they've always been
a leader in the industry for allowing
I guess, the marginalized
of society to come together into your ideas for them to be heard.
And I think that because they've done that so early, they've seen success
that comes from diverse ideas, getting to mingle together.
I do think it's important to have diversity, especially diversity of thought
when you have people from diverse horizons that come together and they share ideas
and everyone gets to hear what the other person is saying.
I think that's when we come to the best solutions