Today's conversation is a continuation of Bill's, most recent chapter of his life with the completion of his graduate degree. Bill will now be working with Northrop Grumman and it's NASA partnership for the James Webb space telescope.
Bill Waterstreet returns to the podcast, as he wraps up his graduate degree from the University of Michigan. Bill enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, starting his service in January 2011. When deployed to Afghanistan in 2013 and 2014, he assists army units in their information operation capacities. He was honorably discharged in January of 2015 at the rank of Sergeant.
Following his service, Bill began attending the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in the fall of 2015. There he majored in mechanical engineering and minor in electrical engineering. After graduate his bachelor's degree, he continued at Michigan and achieved his master's degrees in mechanical engineering with a focus on controls and completed the degree in April 2020.
Show notes:
(00:05:53) James Webb Introduction
(00:08:50) Seeing back in time
(00:10:44) Can you see farther back in time than the age of the universe?
(00:15:06) Folding Spacetime
(00:16:48) What was before the big bang?
(00:18:04) Testing the James Webb
(00:20:24) The Sunshade
(00:22:57) Problems with launching the Hubble
(00:25:11) How to make sure nothing fails?
(00:29:23) Points of Failure and working on the telescope
(00:35:22) The Daily Work
(00:39:11) The Cuckoo's Egg
(00:39:54) How did Bill get the Job?
(00:42:26) SpaceX
(00:44:24) The Dragon Capsule
(00:47:37) Bill's Final Project
(00:51:13) How did bill get interested in rockets
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