.Unlike many of her good friends in the 80s that covered their walls with posters of bands, Julia Khodabandeh glued hers with signboards of rockets and also competitor planes.Khodabandeh's enthusiasm in aerospace as well as aeronautics created at a younger age. Her moms and dads were actually experienced enthusiasts of the Apollo Course as well as were actually greatly bought her education and learning. Khodabandeh's dad constantly urged her to tackle arithmetic and also science problems without anxiety. She withdraws him telling her that "you can easily take any sort of complication and also damage it right into smaller sized items." It is actually a theory she still utilizes in solving complications today." When I was maturing, my daddy will create method tests the evening before my assessments," she claimed. "It helped me experience more well prepared. The self-confidence I cultivated for arithmetic as well as science and my interest for astronautics and also aerospace, led me to a NASA career.".The bulk of her 24-year job with NASA has been actually devoted to strong spacecraft enhancers. Over recent one decade, she aided build the double solid rocket boosters for the organization's SLS (Room Release Unit) spacecraft, which are the biggest and also very most highly effective strong propellant boosters ever flown. They stand at 177 feet high, as well as one at a time generate a maximum thrust of 3.6 thousand pounds. With each other, the twin enhancers offer greater than 75% of the total thrust to release SLS for NASA's Artemis project to the Moon.Khodabandeh got a degree coming from the Educational institution of Alabama in Huntsville with an undergraduate's degree in mechanical engineering and also an expert's level in computational fluid dynamics. Early in her career, her work focused on Space Station microgravity product handling heaters and also the Space Shuttle Return-to-Flight Program. She happened to support the Ares spacecraft strong rocket booster crew as component of the Constellation Course preceding SLS. Her service the Ares booster helped guide her to her existing role on SLS.Khodabandeh is actually the motor as well as pyrotechnic team top for the SLS Enhancer Component Office. She assists design, growth, license, manufacturing, and function of the solid spacecraft motors, enhancer splitting up motors, as well as pyrotechnics for the identical twin enhancers on SLS. The majority of times, she manages routines as well as assists settle concerns with the help of her staff." The air travel equipment and test hardware are actually all remarkable achievements for the group, and also behind these achievements are actually hrs, weeks, and also months of working together to fix issues as well as deliver end results," Khodabandeh said. "It's people that create our team prosperous, as well as unity is my favorite component of what our experts perform. Somebody the moment mentioned, 'You need to create a productive group prior to you may construct successful components.' I could not concede more!".In her spare time, Khodabandeh volunteers at a regional rescue goal, where she supplies aid to ladies battling with addiction. She additionally coaches students in the Huntsville community, where she expects to pass on the self-confidence her daddy instilled in her, uplifting all of them to someday belong of NASA and also the Artemis Production.As the woman who grew along with banners of rockets on her wall structures, Khodabandeh claims she is actually extremely thrilled to be among the various that are in charge of sending rocketeers around the Moon on Artemis II." The unbelievable results of Artemis I is something that I will never forget," she said. "We have actually demonstrated what our company can, as well as I can not stand by to observe what our experts accomplish moving forward on the Artemis Program.".NASA is functioning to land the initial girl, initial individual of shade, as well as its own very first global companion rocketeer on the Moon under Artemis. SLS is part of NASA's backbone for rich room expedition, in addition to the Orion space capsule, supporting ground bodies, advanced spacesuits and vagabonds, the Portal in track around the Moon, and office human landing systems. SLS is the only spacecraft that can send out Orion, rocketeers, and supplies to the Moon in a single launch.Check out other I am Artemis functions.