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I''m Rose Blomquist I'm the power distribution lead for the Quesst mission
my role on the mission is to oversee
the majority of the electrical systems on the aircraft so I deal with anything from
mounting sensors on the aircraft to collect data or making sure all the aircraft components get
power the goal of all these sensors is to collect their data to monitor the aircraft's performance
to make sure that everything is operating as expected
I grew up in a rural part of Northern Michigan
I guess you could say that I lived on a small farm
We even had some horses
and I would go horseback riding a lot or just be outside playing with all the animals
the saying variety is the spice of life is my life motto
because I love to try new things and travel a lot
to see new places so I'd like to consider myself an explorer I have a goal to visit all
the national parks in the U.S so far I visited 27 out of 61 national parks I recently just got
married and we got married in a pretty unique way my husband and I we actually did the John Muir
Trail together which is roughly a 220 mile long backpacking journey and at the very end of that
journey we got married on top of Mount Whitney the highest mountain in the lower 48 states at
14,505 feet it took us 18 days to backpack the 220 miles from Yosemite National Park to Mount Whitney
NASA is a really good fit for me because I'm an explorer and NASA also is always on the
brink of new exploration the thing I'm looking forward to the most for the Quesst mission is
to see the first flight data to make sure that everything is working as it should growing up
in northern Michigan I never thought I would make it to work at NASA it's really a dream
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