Man Says He Got a Job at NASA Accidentally
From futurism.com
2021-11-05 20:38:03
Victor Tangermann
Excerpt:
A viral TikTok is making the rounds about an engineer named David Miller telling an unusual story about how he accidentally got a job at NASA.
“I got an interview for a job working on airplanes, then got a call back saying, ‘Hey, there’s a different job that we think you might like and it’s for the Manipulator, Analysis Graphics, and Interactive Kinematics (MAGIK) team,” he recalled in the video, which has been viewed more than nine million times at the time of writing.
It’s a fun story of how one engineer’s life got turned upside down, making an unexpected career change from tinkering with commercial airliners to designing hardware used by astronauts during spacewalks.
The MAGIK team is responsible for setting the groundwork for and investigating the feasibility of planned robotic operations on board space stations, but most of what Miller worked on was concerned with the International Space Station specifically…..
But it wasn’t exactly the most ordinary job, either.
“I worked on a lot of stuff that went up to the station,” Miller recalled in a follow-up TikTok, including “spacewalk hardware and docking systems.”
So what the hell happened? NASA was desperate to fill out its MAGIK team, so…