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	Podcast:		Exam
	Episode:		Exam - MU Graduate Student Communicating Science for NASA
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:59
	Publish Date:		2019-02-26 11:10:56
	Description:		MU graduate student Marlee Baldridge did not major in science, she does not have any scientific background nor did she ever participate in lab work. Baldridge, though, spent her summer as an intern for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Even with a lack of professional science training, Baldridge’s main job as a NASA communicator was to take the science the scientists researched and translate it for the general public to understand. “Goddard helped build the Genes Webb space telescope which is said to launch in the 2020s and it is the most powerful telescope we’ve ever built,” Baldridge said. “It can see so far, it can see light so old, it’s near the beginnings of the universe. So we describe it not just as a telescope to people, we describe it as a time machine because it’s going to let us understand how the universe actually formed.”
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