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Bill Paradis: I've been working at Goddard on and off since

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1992. I actually worked on the project before GPM called

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TRIMM, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. They say, "Bill

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what do you bring to the table with your planning and scheduling?" I generally

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say I bring the table. What that entails is laying out the schedules

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for all the subsystems. To get the spacecraft

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designed and fabricated and built and assembled and tested.

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It takes a lot of coordination and it takes one person or a few people,

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to sort of track the schedule. I'm hoping that

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this latest and greatest in weather forecasting comes along

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that, if the weather folks are saying that it's going to snow, it's going to snow and the schools are

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going to be closed. As opposed to having snow days and there's not one flake of

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snow out on the back yard. I'm really hoping that. that

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comes true because if they don't, they're going to be asking me what happened.

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(sfx raindrops)

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