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I work on car radiators, but for spacecraft. Meet Rubik Sheth, Project Manager for Advanced Thermal Technologies at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Rubik is testing a phase change heat exchanger that could be used to regulate and maintain safe temperatures inside a spacecraft, protecting both the crew and equipment in …

I help land spacecraft on other planets. Meet Carlie Zumwalt, a Flight Mechanics Engineer at NASA’s Langley Research Center. Carlie uses sophisticated computer modeling to look at everything that could happen, end-to-end, from the moment a spacecraft touches the atmosphere to the time it comes to rest on another planet. …