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When I started working here almost 50 years
ago things were quite different. We always had

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to document our total process of breaking a
rock so we used the old Polaroid cameras and

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the black and white film that you had to pull out
and put the gel coating on there which I'm sure a

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lot of y'all never heard of this. Now, we have
the digital cameras we just take take photos.

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My name is Andrea Mosie and I work with moon rocks.
I think you should be passionate about whatever

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you decide to do; not because somebody else wants
you to do it. I love working with the moon rocks

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because this is the only place that you can
work on this amount of samples. We're working

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in a clean room for the fact that we need to
keep the samples that came from the Moon in the

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same pristine state that they were in when they
were collected. And my favorite sample is Apollo 17

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sample 76535 and it's beautiful. These samples
are a national treasure. Astronauts brought these

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samples back from the Moon from 1969 to 1972. The
goal is to go and get more, but what we have we

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have to take care of. Before NASA even allowed
STEM that I know of, I was going to elementary

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schools with friends who were teaching because
I wanted to motivate them. I wanted them to see

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what I was doing so I could let them know that
they could do the same thing that I was doing

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and let them know that math, science, engineering,
yeah was was a good feeling. One challenge that

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uh I may have faced over the years is knowing
that you deserve to be somewhere that others

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may feel that they don't want you to be, but as
long as you do your best and you know that you

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deserve it you work for that goal and you do what
you know right because nobody can stop you from

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doing what you want to do. No one can stop you
from being what you want to be and no one can

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stop you from going to whatever heights that you
want to go because you are in control of your own

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destiny.