5, 4, 3, 2, 1, IT and Comm Services is Go....
KSC wouldn't be a go without the IT Directorate.
The fact that we provide the computers, the printers, the mobile devices for everyone,
you can't function.
IT is very large.
There's anything from exactly, picking up the phone and answering a technical question
to doing networking underground.
We try to think about, not just software, but other things that may be out there that
exist that we're not using in our current day to day jobs the way
that it was meant to be used.
We have voice and imagery in my particular branch.
We use drones for aerial photography, so theoretically we could have you know three of these waiting
at the ten thousand foot level and as the rocket shoots
past them be able to record all three sides of the rocket
And provide additional engineering imagery as well as some really cool action shots.
I manage the Land Mobile Radio System for the center.
So anybody that's using a hand-held radio or in their vehicles like the ambulance and
the fire trucks they're on our radio system.
In a place like this where everyday is mission critical, things happen everyday and things
need to get done we try to make sure there's no down time at
all, because that can lead to mission slips, missing a launch
window, we never want to miss a launch window.
The one thing that people always ask for after an accident is where are those recordings
of the imagery, where are the recordings of the voice systems?
The Landing and Recovery Program for the Orion capsule, we're there with cameras set up in
the well deck, during the recovery, right after reentry we
try to film every square inch of it in as much detail as possible.
How can 3D printing, or how can augmented reality, or how can virtual reality be used
within NASA you know, productively.
The IDEAS project is a smart set of glasses that technicians will be wearing.
They can see their work authorization documents, or the steps they need to proceed through,
right at their glasses.
We use virtual reality as a way to visualize the inside of say the High Bay.
So, you could actually not be in the High Bay, but you can see everything around you
like you were in the High Bay standing there on the floor.
I knew this was the place that I wanted to work the minute I stepped foot in this place.
There's a game that we built called "Rocket Science 101."
The idea is that kids, anywhere from six to, you know, eighteen can go in and either build the rocket
in a very simple setting or build it where they're
actually putting components into these rockets.
And we're hoping that we can do things where they can dock with the station
and control some of the pieces themselves.
Working with great engineers, scientists, physicists, seeing them in action
and knowing that I'm providing them the capabilities to get the things that they need,
it's fantastic for me.
I know that I won't be with the one that's on the rocket going to Mars, but I do feel
that through whether it's education or helping
someone do their job more efficiently, I do feel like I have a piece in that.
I never imaged working at NASA, working at Kennedy Space Center,
having access to the VAB, being able to see launches,
I'm still shock every single day.
You get to see the end result all the time, you get to see your work,
what you contribute to the mission, you get to see that end result of it lifting off the
ground, and advancing in technology and exploration.