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During a childhood visit to the National Air and Space
Museum in Washington, D.C., Margaret Anderson caught the spacetravel
bug. She knew then and there she wanted to work for NASA.
It wasn't just a passing fancy. Now 21, Anderson is a student at the
Rochester Institute of Technology, working simultaneously on her
master's and bachelor's degrees in mechanical engineering. And
she's living her dream. Anderson is employed at the space agency
through a student co-op program and is working on hybrid
rockets—experimental power plants that combine solid and liquid
fuel technologies to find a cheaper, safer way into space.
If it sounds counterintuitive that a fledgling rocket scientist is
earning degrees in mechanical engineering, it seemed that way to
Anderson at first. She admits she was initially "disappointed" that
RIT has made aerospace engineering part of its mechanical
engineering program. Now, though, she's "really glad I decided to
do it." Mechanical engineering,......
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