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Systems engineering at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

Joins NASA Marshall as a systems engineering and project management intern, supporting the ISS program at the HOSC and the creation of the Artemis III command and control room.

Colin Raby with arms outstretched beneath a row of historic rockets in Huntsville, Alabama — Fig. 1Beneath the rockets in Huntsville at the start of the summer, June 2022.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. · Colin Raby joined NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center as a systems engineering and project management intern.

At Marshall he supported the International Space Station program at the Huntsville Operations Support Center (HOSC) and the creation of the command and control room for Artemis III, an introduction to how very large, very high-stakes technical programs are actually run.Systems engineering is the discipline of making complicated things work together. It turns out to be excellent training for building AI products.

The summer cemented an engineering habit that carries through his later work: decompose the problem, define the interfaces, test everything.

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Colin Raby standing atop a NASA rocket test stand above the treeline under a bright sky — Fig. 2From the top of a test stand at Marshall Space Flight Center.

Systems engineering at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

Starts a summer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

Halfway through the NASA internship, from ISS town halls to control rooms

Looking back on a summer at NASA Marshall

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