Job Title: Aerospace
Location: Greenbelt,
Submitted on: 27-Apr-04
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NASA will be receiving added attention in the coming years. As per
Bush's executive directive, they will be focusing more on Moon and Mars
missions. Places like Goddard will probably focus less on their
traditional areas of Earth orbiting satellites and will probably be
redirected to providing developmental support to deep space missions
(like NASA JPL in Pasadena). The science aspect will be reemphasized as
well, i.e. space physics and biology. When I left, I was working on a
mission that would attempt to measure gravity waves, which are ripples
in the fabrc of space-time. The mission required satellite positioning
within one tenth of a nano meter. Hard core science missions like that
are what NASA does best. Private companies offer cheap alternatives to
getting a satellite into orbit, but NASA has the quality earned from
peer reviews and facilities and budget.
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