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My name is Julie Williams-Byrd and I am the Center Chief Technologist at NASA's Langley  

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Research Center.  I identify the best technologies that will enable NASA missions. We have our Artemis  

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Generation and we're sending humans to the Moon.  And so they'll need habitats and rovers to get  

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our astronauts around so that they can explore. How are they going to power things once they're  

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on the Moon?  Our early stage technologists and our innovators are looking at materials  

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that will enable those vehicles, and they're going to test them out, and that's why we're excited  

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about giving them an opportunity to develop these! My job is very cool, but what I really like  

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is the opportunity to go out and talk 
to young people about STEM careers -- 

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Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics -- and really encourage them to have STEM careers.  

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I have a lot of things that I like doing. Moving is important to me. I run a lot. The running especially  

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helps me with my competition. This year, I ran my first half marathon. That was, "I can go a  

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little bit farther, right?  I'm competitive. I can do this!" Being with family helps me relax and  

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I also started doing puzzles. I have one in my living room now and you know that whole puzzle, 

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putting things together. I like working Sudoku. So it's the math, it's the curiosity , it's the  

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challenge. So all of those, I think, run within me and it's within my core. In life there's a lot  

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of things that happen, right, and you just kind of move forward. You figure out what's inside  

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you that really resonates with you and you just keep putting one foot in front of the other. 

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(laughter)

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