Personal Narrative: My NASA Experience

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This NASA experience resembles a stairway towards whom I need to be in life. I'm occupied with this due to getting background for NASA and my field (Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering). Additionally, to meet different people and guides in my field so I can develop and better myself as an individual. By applying what I gain from this in my life, it ought to profit me to be in the pattern of current architects and society. I have been tremendously intrigued by NASA for quite a while and I need to resemble the people that work there. For me to apply autonomy, for example, the RoboSimian (NASA JPL's Robot) all things considered, it will affect my field in the creation and planning stage and turn it more into a leisure activity.To me, it has been

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