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Move this world videos1/21/2024 ![]() Knowledge expands billions of miles away, as we are on a mission to explore new horizons. OSIRIS-REx literally collected a sample of a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu and is bringing it back to Earth so that we can do more research in our labs. Programmed spacecraft are traveling throughout space collecting asteroid samples to bring back to Earth. At more than 14 billion miles away from Earth's surface, these spacecraft are literally in the interstellar medium, breaking barriers of our solar system. Space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have been traveling through space since the '70s. We are voyagers collecting data beyond our solar system. So thankfully, software-enabled processes caused our manual processes to then become completely automated. With increased computer use on board, it caused an increase of computer use off board as well. It was controlled by groundbreaking avionics of the time and notably the Launch Vehicle Digital Computer. This rocket did not merely just launch into the air and break through the atmosphere. So it was literally facilitating human footprints to the Moon. So from 1969 to 1973, the Saturn V served as the launcher for the Apollo program. Some may even argue that the Saturn V was created to take humanity to Mars. Sending 24 humans into space, completing 13 launches, weighing over 6 million pounds and standing taller than the Statue of Liberty was the Saturn V, the largest rocket ever created in history. But even before all of those innovations, we've had the passion to go to Mars. ![]() And really that hunger to produce all of this innovation and technological breakthroughs has caused us to create fantastic innovations from personal computers to global positioning systems or, as you know it, GPS, and even the Internet. Since our very first breath, humankind has just had this passion to explore and discover the unknown, to determine the new frontiers. And I also had the opportunity to define the outer protective layer for the space suit of the future. While at MIT, I had the opportunity to define antigravity rotations for astronauts. To continue towards my dream, I decided to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Being able to see something go from paper to product to movement put it all together for me. ![]() So being able to design and build was already a passion that I had acquired prior to the program, but being able to program that structure that I create and make it move, that just brought it all to life for me, literally. I joined a program that taught students about robotics. So at the age of 11, I decided to become an aerospace engineer. So she did those exercises because she understood that I had a passion for mathematics. And my mom, when we would go to the grocery store, she would challenge me to calculate the total of the groceries, including tax, minus the coupons, without a calculator. And he didn't realize it, but he was introducing me to engineering. ![]() My father, he was a construction worker, and he would show me how to take measurements or how to build small-scale houses. Fortunately, I grew up with both of my parents and two older siblings. I was born and raised in a small town outside of Atlanta called Mableton, Georgia. I'm a rocket scientist working on NASA's Space Launch System, and I'm working to get us to Mars. So at the age of 11, I decided to become an aerospace engineer, and ever since that moment, I've been stuck on that dream. ♪ ♪ I had the passion of designing, building. ![]() ♪ ♪ Six, five, four, three, two, one, zero. ![]()
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