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Girls in STEM | Meet NASA's Amy Marasia

NASA's next generation of manned spaceflight is being propelled by many talented women.

Exploration Mission One.

That's the name of the first flight of NASA's new mission to get to the moon and eventually Mars.

Hundreds of incredibly talented scientists are working with a team of thousands to conceptualize, design, create and launch a new rocket (called the SLS: Space Launch System) carrying a new space capsule (named Orion) that will take humans deeper into space than ever before.

Many of these scientists are women working at all levels in all of NASA's locations.

We traveled to Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida to meet up with some of the top talent.

Amy Marasia is the Orion Crew Module Flow Manager.  She is overseeing all stages of the capsule's preparations at Kennedy.

With a background in aerospace engineering and an advanced degree in business administration, she has a keen eye for science and schedules.  She got her start in Mission Control watching propulsion systems for the space shuttle program.  After working on 44 shuttle missions that program came to an end, and it was time for Amy to move toward the future.

"It started when an engineer came to high school for Career Day," said Marasia.  "Manned space flight is very, very exciting.  Best time I've ever had. Didn't feel like a job." 

STEMbassadors, a part of our multi-year, multi-platform initiative called Growing Curiosity | Girls in STEM, is a weekly segment featured Friday at 7PM on WKYC that highlights women and girls doing great things in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).

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