Nathan Young was terrified. At just 18 years old, it was his responsibility to test and align the optics of a telescope that would eventually become part of an instrument launching into space. If that wasnt frightening enough, the telescope was property of NASA and valued at $1.4 million. Young was one of three high school graduates from Maryland selected to work on NASAs Cloud-Aerosol Transport System, an instrument built to measure the atmospheres clouds and particles from space and scheduled to be launched to the International Space Station on Tuesday.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 22:20:05 +0000
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