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NASA’s Science Head on Leading Space Missions with Risk of Spectacular Failure

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How Did You Become a Scientist?

I grew up in an Amish Light kind of version, so very isolated from the community as a whole. The only books I read as a child were either the Bible or things about the Bible. And eventually I went to the teacher and said, hey, I would really like to consider studying. That surprise was kind of there when the teacher said, oh, you may not be good enough,. But I had overheard them saying that, look at their parents, they're not really smart.

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