NASA's Artemis Webinar for Blind People: RS-25 Engines, Blind Engineers and Accessible Space
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NASA's Artemis Webinar for Blind People: RS-25 Engines, Blind Engineers and Accessible Space

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 9, 202656 min

NASA ran an Artemis webinar built for blind and low vision people, and two of the panelists are blind NASA engineers. Steven Scott talks to Dr. Robert Shelton, Dr. Craig Moore and Christine Malec about the RS-25 rocket engine, how they built careers at NASA, and what would make space missions accessible to blind fans. Bob Shelton has worked at NASA for almost 40 years and is now lead simulation engineer for the Commercial Crew Program. He describes joining Johnson Space Center as a blind mathematician in 1971. His first boss told him to figure out where he could...

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Here's Steven Scott and Sean Preece. Yeah it's not often we say that Sean Preece. NASA's webinar for blind people. The blind people. That's us, Steven Scott. We're the blind people. That's brilliant. Fantastic. And even more rare, NASA and double tap out

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