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Bill Paradis: I've been working at Goddard on and off since
1992. I actually worked on the project before GPM called
TRIMM, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. They say, "Bill
what do you bring to the table with your planning and scheduling?" I generally
say I bring the table. What that entails is laying out the schedules
for all the subsystems. To get the spacecraft
designed and fabricated and built and assembled and tested.
It takes a lot of coordination and it takes one person or a few people,
to sort of track the schedule. I'm hoping that
this latest and greatest in weather forecasting comes along
that, if the weather folks are saying that it's going to snow, it's going to snow and the schools are
going to be closed. As opposed to having snow days and there's not one flake of
snow out on the back yard. I'm really hoping that. that
comes true because if they don't, they're going to be asking me what happened.
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