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- Crusts - Peter Sharer- Orbital Engineer
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In Australia, when someone asks "What do you do for a Crust?" They are asking what you do for a living, your job, your profession. Our Series "Crusts", provides vignettes from people around the world, looking at what they do, why they love doing it, and how, if you are interested in this profession, you can get into it too.
Our guest for this installment in the series is Peter Sharer who is an Orbital Engineer, or better known in the aerospace business as a Mission Designer, for the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. It is Peter's job to calculate the Orbit of a satellite and give those results to the people who fire off the Rocket. I caught up with Peter in his tiny office at JPL.
You can also listen in to a subsequent Interview I did with Peter on the STEREO project that he was working on, as he better explains what an Orbit is and how unique some of them really are at the following PRX website.
http://www.prx.org/series/11540
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Crusts - Kim Szawan - Zookeeper
(00:05:00)
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Crusts - Tracy Ford - Mechanic
(00:05:17)
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Careers Vignettes: The passion that got them started: Tracy Ford - Mechanic
Crusts - Ed Reynolds - APL Project Manager
(00:04:01)
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Careers Vignettes: The passion that got them started: Ed Reynolds - APL Project Manager
Crusts - Steven Dick - Historian
(00:03:57)
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Careers Vignettes: The passion that got them started: Steven Dick - NASA Chief Historian
Crusts - Francine Hasegawa - Police Officer
(00:03:53)
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Career Vignettes: The passion that got them started: Francine Hasegawa - Police Officer - Detroit, Michigan, USA
Crusts - Rebecca Pearl - Pool Manager
(00:03:14)
From: Ray Gard
Career Vignettes: The passion that got them started: Rebecca Pearl - Pool Manager - Maryland, USA
Crusts - Randy Barrett - Banjo Player
(00:02:34)
From: Ray Gard
Careers Vignettes: The passion that got them started: Randy Barrett - Banjo Player - Randy Barrett and the Barrettones
Crusts - Luke Becker - Quality Assurance Engineer
(00:03:22)
From: Ray Gard
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Crusts - John Troll - Optical Alignment Engineer
(00:02:22)
From: Ray Gard
Careers Vignettes: The passion that got them started: John Troll - Optical Alignment Engineer (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)
Crusts - Ray Ohl - Optical Physicist
(00:07:23)
From: Ray Gard
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Piece Description
In Australia, when someone asks "What do you do for a Crust?" They are asking what you do for a living, your job, your profession. Our Series "Crusts", provides vignettes from people around the world, looking at what they do, why they love doing it, and how, if you are interested in this profession, you can get into it too. Our guest for this installment in the series is Peter Sharer who is an Orbital Engineer, or better known in the aerospace business as a Mission Designer, for the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. It is Peter's job to calculate the Orbit of a satellite and give those results to the people who fire off the Rocket. I caught up with Peter in his tiny office at JPL. You can also listen in to a subsequent Interview I did with Peter on the STEREO project that he was working on, as he better explains what an Orbit is and how unique some of them really are at the following PRX website. http://www.prx.org/series/11540
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Here in Australia, when someone asks ?What do you do for a Crust?? They are asking what you do for a living, your job, your profession. Our Series ? ?Crusts?, provides vignettes from people around the world, looking at what they do, why they love doing it, and how, if you are interested in this profession, you can get into it too.
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