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When I started working here almost 50 years 
ago things were quite different. We always had  

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to document our total process of breaking a 
rock so we used the old Polaroid cameras and  

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the black and white film that you had to pull out 
and put the gel coating on there which I'm sure a  

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lot of y'all never heard of this. Now, we have 
the digital cameras we just take take photos.  

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My name is Andrea Mosie and I work with moon rocks. 
I think you should be passionate about whatever  

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you decide to do; not because somebody else wants 
you to do it. I love working with the moon rocks  

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because this is the only place that you can 
work on this amount of samples. We're working  

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in a clean room for the fact that we need to 
keep the samples that came from the Moon in the  

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same pristine state that they were in when they 
were collected. And my favorite sample is Apollo 17 

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sample 76535 and it's beautiful. These samples 
are a national treasure. Astronauts brought these  

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samples back from the Moon from 1969 to 1972. The 
goal is to go and get more, but what we have we  

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have to take care of. Before NASA even allowed 
STEM that I know of, I was going to elementary  

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schools with friends who were teaching because 
I wanted to motivate them. I wanted them to see  

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what I was doing so I could let them know that 
they could do the same thing that I was doing  

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and let them know that math, science, engineering, 
yeah was was a good feeling. One challenge that  

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uh I may have faced over the years is knowing 
that you deserve to be somewhere that others  

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may feel that they don't want you to be, but as 
long as you do your best and you know that you  

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deserve it you work for that goal and you do what 
you know right because nobody can stop you from  

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doing what you want to do. No one can stop you 
from being what you want to be and no one can  

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stop you from going to whatever heights that you 
want to go because you are in control of your own

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destiny.