How Students Learn To Fly NASA's IXPE Spacecraft

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Amelia "Mia" De Herrera-Schnering is an undergraduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and command controller for NASA's IXPE mission at LASP.

The large wall monitor displaying a countdown shows 17 seconds when Amelia "Mia" De Herrera-Schnering tells her teammates "We have AOS," meaning "acquisition of signal."

"Copy that, thank you," Alexander Pichler replies. The two are now in contact with NASA's IXPE

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