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Carina Umaña, 34 and originally from Santa Ana, El Salvador, was one of the people who made NASA’s successful mission to the planet Mars possible last week, according to La Opinion.
Umaña began studying criminal law at Pasadena City College (PCC) and took an electronics elective out of curiosity, which is how life introduced her to a branch of science that made her fall in love with the profession, Umaña says.
He currently works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, a lab that followed the process of the mission called Perseverance.
The Salvadoran woman is an electronic development engineer on the NASA team, which enabled her to work on building the electronic portion of the prototypes. Umaña said that when she saw Perseverance land, the device sent to Mars, she couldn’t hold back the tears of the emotion, as it was a long and hard work of three years to achieve success in that mission.
“Engineers are the ones responsible for research and design. They come up to me and say, “Do you think you can make this work?” So I find the parts and build them, ”he told La Opinion in an interview.
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Umaña has lived in the United States since she was three years old. Today, a successful woman, mother of three and working for NASA, invites young people to fight for their goals and makes it clear that anything is possible, but you need to be patient and persistent.
“There are engineers who have asked more than 200 times to enter the entity, we have to insist,” he says.
Finally, Umaña ensures that having babies is not a constraint to achieving personal and professional goals. “A woman always has the power to do anything,” she says.
Perseverance is an exploration device that went from planet Earth to Mars six months ago for the purpose of investigating and investigating whether there are microfossils and signs of past life on the Red planet. It successfully reached its destination on February 18, a historic event that will be recorded for future generations.
Perseverance is expected to collect rock and soil samples, and has also been tasked with recording audio as long as it stays on Mars.