Lynn Bassford levels decades of experience and a desire for self-growth as she helps lead Hubble’s Mission Operations team.
: Multifunctional Engineering and Science ManagerLynn Bassford’s long career enables her to keep learning. “It’s just a fact of my life to learn something new every day until the day I die,” she says. “I’m not happy being stagnant.”What do you do and what is most interesting about your role here at Goddard? How do you help support Goddard’s mission?
Over the years, I’ve had the luck of being able to meet several astronauts that have gone up in our servicing missions. In a couple cases, we had them visit us in the middle of the night on our long shifts. Meeting them is like meeting a rock star.Space was a combination of sci-fi and reality. The Apollo 11 Moon landing took place a couple of months after I was born, so my dad and I like to say that I was in front of the TV watching and it just got absorbed into my persona.
You’ve held many roles over your years at Goddard. How do you feel that they’ve contributed to your current role as a manager? Lynn Bassford and the 1996 Hubble flight operations team received an award for keeping Hubble running during a three-foot snowstorm. “Seven people stayed for two-and-a-half days straight,” Lynn recalls.Hubble’s mission is just generally the coolest. It’s helping to discover, and to rewrite science books. Helping humanity discover what’s out there and move forward into the universe is groundbreaking.For students, make sure you work hard even though college can be quite a challenge.
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