Laurie Carrillo is an aerospace engineer at the NASA-Johnson Space Center who’s working on the Orion CEV spacecraft, slated for a moon launch after the current space shuttle retires in 2010. She’s experimenting with different materials to find the best combinations for keeping the temperature ideal inside the spacecraft. She says it can’t be too cold or else condensation will form. As a child, Carrillo was fascinated by space and remembers watching the U.S. astronaut Sally Ride on Sesame Street. Before being a part of this project, Carrillo helped organize and analyze wind particles, meteorites, and lunar rocks brought back from NASA missions.

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