my name is natasha cloud i play for the
washington mystics and i play in the
wnba so i play basketball
i'm naji castro and i work at nasa
goddard space flight center in greenbelt
maryland and i'm currently working on
the osiris-rex project and the maven
mission
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t-minus
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no issues with the range everything
continues to be go 25
status check
goals go centaur go cyrus reps everyone
is go we knew where we wanted to be at
the end of the season we got to that
point and now it's just about finishing
and believing in each other seven six
five
four
three
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one
and liftoff of osiris-rex
we go into every season thinking that
we're going to win the championship and
just because we won doesn't mean that
we're going to be handed a championship
once we go into this season everything's
erased and we're starting new
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we almost have to reset during every
phase because everything's been kind of
a different mini mission just approach
was you know a mission of itself trying
to learn how to navigate around bennu
what kind of gravity environment was at
bennu would we be in a very stable orbit
but it's always really rewarding like
even when you saw the first you know
approach picture to bennu it's like oh
my gosh that's our target
it takes a lot of practice a lot of
hours in the gym a lot of perfecting
your craft
so it's a constant learning process to
be an engineer being open and knowing
that there is a lot of education that
you can continue to do i feel like i
learned something new every day
so you go into it you have nerves you
have anxieties obviously it's kind of do
or die time but you just prepare as if
it was any other game
despite all the challenges that are
ongoing we really can lead successful
operations
especially for young women there's going
to be a lot of people that tell them
they can't do it there's going to be a
lot of roadblocks in the way if you will
and for me as a as a female athlete it's
important for them to see a role model
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i hope i can serve as a reminder to
girls that they should be emboldened to
pursue engineering as i have
you