INTRODUCTION
Harnessing the Power of the Moonshot Mindset
Not many 16-year-olds get to work at NASA, but there I was: a summer high school intern working at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. I was a part of SHARP (Summer High School Apprenticeship Research Program), working on the International Space Station Alpha (ISSA) initiative, and everywhere I looked were nerds—with pocket protectors, which I didn’t even know anyone used. They talked in some kind of unique language, with acronyms for everything, and used words in new ways I didn’t understand. It took me several weeks, for example, to realize “payload” was their word for “satellite.” The place, as I affectionately refer to it now, was a total nerd oasis. And I loved it!
My first ...
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