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Why I Love My Job

I think about the thousands of people who built Hubble and how many failures they endured. There were countless failures, heartbreaking failures, even when it was in space. And none of those failures were a reason for them to give up. All of science builds on the previous group of people not giving up. I don't know what the future holds or like what is going to matter 50 years from now. It's kind of amazing that the only reason why it failed was because of a tiny holeThat actually feels surmountable in some ways. At the time, it felt very out of control. But at the same time, it's like very fixable versus if everything else worked and we still

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