Victor Hwang: Spacecraft are never late
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2013
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
What's the worst that can happen when you let a recent college grad command a $330 million spacecraft? Victor Hwang is a New England born nerd. After graduating from Tufts, he helped build ground telescopes, fly spacecrafts, and chased a dream to become a circus acrobat. Now he's a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute trying to make humanoid robots a little bit smarter. Every week the Story Collider brings you a true, personal story about science. Find more and subscribe to our podcast at our website: http://storycollider.org/
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| 0:28.2 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:31.4 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:33.2 | I felt... |
| 0:34.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:36.2 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:39.4 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:52.9 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:53.8 | I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:59.9 | This week's story is from Victor Huang. |
| 1:02.3 | The story was recorded in October 2013 at the Rex Theater in Pittsburgh as part of an event for stories by graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University. |
| 1:18.6 | So when I was 21 years old, I was finishing up my last semester at a small liberal arts college in Boston. |
| 1:25.7 | And like any college senior, I was pretty excited at the prospect |
| 1:29.3 | of getting a job and making some money, having real responsibility. But at the same time, I was |
| 1:35.8 | suffering from a pretty severe bout of senioritis. And in case you're not familiar with senioritis, |
| 1:41.3 | it's when you take squash, tennis, and yoga classes, |
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