.Unlike many of her friends in the 80s that covered their wall surfaces along with banners of bands, Julia Khodabandeh smudged hers with posters of spacecrafts and also boxer planes.Khodabandeh's rate of interest in aerospace and aeronautics created at a youthful age. Her moms and dads were actually enthusiastic enthusiasts of the Beauty Plan and were actually heavily bought her learning. Khodabandeh's dad always motivated her to take on mathematics and also science concerns without worry. She thinks him informing her that "you can easily take any concern and damage it into smaller pieces." It is actually a philosophy she still makes use of in addressing concerns today." When I was actually growing, my dad would certainly create practice exams the night before my exams," she pointed out. "It assisted me feel much more equipped. The assurance I created for math and also scientific research as well as my passion for air transportations and also aerospace, led me to a NASA occupation.".The lion's share of her 24-year occupation with NASA has actually been devoted to solid rocket boosters. Over the past ten years, she assisted cultivate the double sound rocket boosters for the agency's SLS (Room Release System) rocket, which are actually the largest and also most highly effective sound aerosol can enhancers ever before flown. They stand at 177 feets tall, as well as individually produce an optimum drive of 3.6 million pounds. With each other, the identical twin enhancers provide greater than 75% of the overall propulsion to release SLS for NASA's Artemis campaign to the Moon.Khodabandeh got a degree from the College of Alabama in Huntsville with a bachelor's level in technical engineering and also an expert's degree in computational fluid dynamics. Early in her career, her job focused on Spaceport station microgravity component processing furnaces as well as the Space Shuttle Return-to-Flight Program. She went on to assist the Ares spacecraft strong rocket enhancer staff as part of the Constellation System coming before SLS. Her service the Ares enhancer aided guide her to her current role on SLS.Khodabandeh is the motor and also pyrotechnic group top for the SLS Enhancer Aspect Office. She supports concept, advancement, accreditation, production, as well as procedure of the solid rocket electric motors, booster separation motors, and also pyrotechnics for the twin boosters on SLS. The majority of days, she handles timetables and helps solve concerns with the aid of her crew." The air travel components as well as examination hardware are all tremendous accomplishments for the crew, and responsible for these success are actually hrs, full weeks, and months of collaborating to address concerns and also deliver results," Khodabandeh claimed. "It's the people that make our company effective, and also unity is my beloved component of what our experts carry out. A person when stated, 'You have to build a productive staff before you may create successful components.' I couldn't concur additional!".In her downtime, Khodabandeh volunteers at a nearby rescue purpose, where she supplies help to women struggling with substance abuse. She also coaches students in the Huntsville community, where she expects to hand down the assurance her father instilled in her, inspiring them to one day belong of NASA as well as the Artemis Creation.As the lady that grew along with banners of rockets on her wall surfaces, Khodabandeh says she is extremely thrilled to become some of the numerous who are in charge of sending astronauts around the Moon on Artemis II." The incredible results of Artemis I is actually something that I will never forget," she pointed out. "Our experts have actually displayed what our experts're capable of, and I can not wait to observe what our experts complete moving forward on the Artemis System.".NASA is actually functioning to land the very first female, first individual of different colors, and also its own very first global companion astronaut on the Moon under Artemis. SLS becomes part of NASA's foundation for deep area expedition, together with the Orion spacecraft, advocating ground systems, progressed spacesuits and also rovers, the Entrance in track around the Moon, as well as industrial human touchdown bodies. SLS is the only rocket that may send Orion, astronauts, and also items to the Moon in a single launch.Check out various other I am actually Artemis features.