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"As Hubble orbits Earth..."

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"it must be protected against drastic changes in temperature."

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"Thermal blankets have provided that protection for over 30 years,

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"thanks to a team of skilled thermal blanket technicians."

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"Thermal blanket technicians craft the mylar shields..."

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"... that have helped Hubble explore the universe's secrets."

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"Paula Cain, Thermal Blanket Technician"

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[ SEWING MACHINE SOUND ]

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I guess I had been here maybe a few days
and they said "oh you know HST is coming back!"

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At that point, I didn't even know what HST was.

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Then I came to found out it was Hubble, so that was interesting to find out I'm like

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"Oh cool!" You know? Because I had seen Hubble in the news and things like that.

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"Paula's first day at NASA was working for the Hubble Space Telescope."

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But it was fun and I wouldn't have had any other
way because it sort of, how would you say,

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what do they say? "Baptism by fire?"
So if I can make it through this, I'm good!

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"She came to NASA with a background in fashion design."

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[ WORK SOUNDS ]

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It's very similar, it's just that it's a
different type of body, because you have

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to worry about how things shift, how
they're gonna fit, the angles, everything

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just like how you do with
pattern making and design.

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I still do a little bit now and my
biggest thing right now

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is I like to design handbags
because it's quicker.

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Especially fabbing blankets and everything I want to
go home and be more creative and

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design something else. I think that's why
I like it so much because

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it sort of makes me be creative.

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[ VERY FUN MUSIC ]

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"Paula worked on servicing mission 4 (SM4) for the Hubble Space Telescope"

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I worked on a couple of little
structures that went on

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parts of the M.U.L.E.
for the servicing mission.

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"M.U.L.E stands for Multi-Use Lightweight Equipment Carrier"

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"A vital part in transporting equipment for upgrades and repairs during SM4"

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When it came back, the M.U.L.E,
they had taken all of the blankets off

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and they had to repair blankets and then
we had to put them back on.

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I was worried, and I wanted to make sure
I was doing everything right that I was supposed to.

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Because at that point I didn't know like
if I touch this and the whole thing was

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just gonna knock over, you know,
because you have these big ideas in your

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head of what could go wrong,
and I have a wild imagination!

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I do think it was pretty cool to come in
and be working on the servicing mission for Hubble.

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I don't think there's many places that
something like that could happen you know?

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Where you come in and you're
working on something that important

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that you know is in history.

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In that sense it does, when I think about it,
Hubble that I touched blankets going on there,

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wow it's still up there! People say "it's still going strong!" Yeah, I had something to do with that!

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You know? In a small way, but yeah it does
make you think about it more

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because before I was working here,

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yeah I knew about it and I had watched things
but now it's, you know,

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a little closer to your heart.

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