339. On the Job with Lynn McGrew, NASA Aerospace Engineer

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Ali Feller

Run, Health & Fitness, Women, Inspiration, Runner, Entrepreneur, Sports, Fitness, Health, Running

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

“A lot of science is about asking questions. It’s OK to not understand something. And it’s OK that it’s hard. That understanding comes in just being curious. We don’t have all the answers, but we know how to go about looking for them.”

Welcome to Season 4 of the On the Job series! This season, you’ll hear from seven women with cool, unique, interesting careers. We’ll learn about the jobs we see on TV — lawyers and nurses and astronauts, oh my! — and we’ll honor some frontline heroes, including an emergency room nurse and a middle school special education teacher. But first, we’re going to space, with real-life rocket scientist Lynn McGrew! Lynn is a NASA aerospace engineer based at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX, and on this episode, she talks about the moment she fell in love with space (“For the first time, in the middle of the country, I saw this band of stars across the sky, and I was just fascinated by it. What is this magical view overhead? I was absolutely stunned, and so curious,” she says.), explains how she broke into the competitive field, and talks about her decades-long involvement working on the Mars rovers in the jet propulsion laboratory (“JPL”), including the Phoenix, the Curiosity, and, most recently, the Perseverance. Plus, she talks about how running and cycling fit into her life.

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0:00.0	The On The Job Series on the Alley On The Run Show is brought to you by Tracksmith.
0:04.4	Go to Tracksmith.com slash On The Run to get 15% off your next Tracksmith purchase of $75 or more.
0:16.5	Welcome to The Alley On The Run Show. I'm your host Alley Feller and I am so excited to be here for
0:22.1	season 4 of the On The Job Series as a refresher of what The On The Job Series is all about.
0:28.9	For the next 7 weeks I will introduce you to 7 remarkable women who have cool,
0:34.3	unique, exciting jobs. We'll learn about how they got into their fields, what their days are really
0:39.6	like, and what makes their jobs exciting, challenging, and at times scary and stressful.
0:46.3	My goal with this series is to learn more about how women make work and running work in tandem,
0:51.4	especially when the work part of that equation includes, say, 100 hour work weeks or
0:57.2	working from home with toddlers running around, or being on the front lines of the pandemic as a
1:02.3	night shift emergency room nurse. We'll hear from women who have the jobs we see on TV.
1:07.7	You know I love a Grey's Anatomy reference and this season we'll hear from two very different
1:12.8	types of lawyers, both a public defender and a food lawyer. I didn't even know that existed.
1:18.8	And because they deserve our love and praise and appreciation always, but now more than ever,
1:24.4	we will also hear from a nurse and a teacher. But first, we're heading to Mars. Seriously, we are
1:31.6	we are kicking off season 4 of the On The Job Series with NASA Aerospace Engineer, Lin McGrew,
1:37.9	a real-life rocket scientist. Lin is part of the team that just got the Mars Perseverance
1:43.7	rover on its successful mission and it was so fun to hear all about what it was like being in
1:48.9	the control room when the update came in that the Perseverance had successfully touched down on
1:54.0	Mars. She talks about what it's really like working for NASA, talks about dealing with
1:58.7	imposter syndrome early on, and of course talks about how running fits into all of it.
2:04.8	So let's hear more and let's kick off on the job series season 4 with Lin McGrew.
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