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A very great deal of effort and testing goes

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into building a successful spacecraft.

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For example,

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every transistor and integrated circuit
is tested with an X-ray machine

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to see if there's anything inside
that could cause a problem later on.

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In 1951 Townsend became the first woman to earn an engineering degree

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from George Washington University.

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She later became the first female project manager for a satellite mission at NASA

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and worked on the Small Astronomy Satellite series, launching three satellites in the 1970s.

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I'm the project manager for Lucy.

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But before I became the project manager
for Lucy, I was actually an engineer

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at NASA Goddard.

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So I've actually been working here

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for 30 years, and when I started,
I was actually a co-op student.

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I mean, when things I do as a project
manager is to assemble

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a team of scientists and engineers

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and technicians and business people
to develop the concept,

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to mature the concept,
in order to achieve the science.