Sky-High Engineering: Behind the Scenes with Aerospace Engineer & Deep Space and Missle Senior Manager at Lockheed Martin, Scott Shepherd [ep.6]

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Episode Summary

All right, my Questies! We are continuing our adventure in outer space! Have you ever imagined what it would be like to be part of a team that builds a spacecraft that they get to send into outer space? That would be so cool to do! Did you know that there are people who collaborate to plan, design, and build spacecrafts? Aerospace engineers get to do this for their STEM career!

Today, we’re hearing from Scott Shepherd, who is an aerospace engineer with the role of a Deep Space and Missile Senior Manager. Scott takes us on a journey showing us what it’s like to be an aerospace engineer who works on deep space projects, what led him to choose this STEM career, and so much more! This episode is filled with so many fun and exciting facts about aerospace engineers that I know you’re going to enjoy. Don't forget to join our STEM Career Quest Club so you can learn even more about what it’s like to be an aerospace engineer.

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Meet Scott Shepherd:

Scott was born in a suburb of Chicago but moved out to Colorado when he was 10. Always interested in space, he went to college for Mechanical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines and started working at Lockheed Martin Space while still going to school. He stared by working on a Mars Orbiter, Odyssey, that is still flying around Mars today. He spent many years designing gimbals and mechanisms for satellites, then moved to operating satellites after they are launched into space. He is now a senior manager overseeing several teams that operate spacecraft and missiles. Some of the missions he gets to work with are the Hubble Space Telescope, Osiris-Rex, Lucy, Juno, and several military satellite and missile programs.

See an Aerospace Engineer & Deep Space and Missile Senior Manager in Action:

Gif of the OSIRIS-Rex TAG getting a sample from the asteroid Bennu. The sample was recently returned to Earth and is being studied by scientists. Some of the samples are on display at the Smithsonian and University of Arizona.

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