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Being mad in passion for something, can really deserve to be equated with scores or marks ?

 

 

 

 

Lets just not overthink about it  and should

unbiasedly analyse it.

 

NOTE:

All those who are reading about Sir Ben Cichy, stuck

with his statement about vision towards being

passionate for creation and development.

Something about NASA and Ben:

The NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal was established in 1981 to extol extraordinary engineering contributions for  achieving aeronautical or space exploration goals, awarded for individual efforts in applications of engineering principles or methodologies that have resulted in a contribution of fundamental importance in the field or have significantly intensified the understanding of the field and advanced the state of the practice as demonstrated by an application to aerospace systems. 

He was connected with NASA as :

Mission System Engineer, Restore-L Mission

Mission System Engineer (MSE) and

Engineering Technical Authority (ETA) for

the Restore-L On-Orbit Servicing Assembly

and Manufacturing (OSAM) technology

demonstration mission.

Mission System Engineer, Asteroid Robotic Redirect Mission

Technical lead for the Goddard Space Flight Center

team developing the Asteroid Redirect

Robotic Mission Capture Module which

prepares to land a 10 metric ton

vehicle on the surface of a low gravity asteroid,

collect a boulder, and return

it to the Earth-Moon system.

Surface Operations, Phoenix Mars Lander

Carried and supported Mars Phoenix Lander primary

mission surface operations at

the University of Arizona.

Performed multiple tactical and strategic operation

roles working on “Mars Time.”

Flight Software Engineer, New Millennium Program Space Technology 6 Mission

Developed advanced onboard autonomy software

for extended operations of the EO-1 spacecraft.

Performed mission operations that resulted in the

EO-1 spacecraft autonomously retargeting

future activities from sensed observations.

 

The story of building mars exploration rover.

Mars – The dusty, rocky and barren land where there were no traces of life.

everything about the planet was examined thoroughly and due to some reasons for the next 20 years they didn’t send any robots to Mars and in during that span of time, they’ve decided to go on with a whole new innovative technology for landing on Mars, wrapped the lander in bubble wrap and bounced it on the surface of Mars. In 1996 his team came up with a first ever made rover for landing on Mars and in 1999 they encountered  two catastrophic failures in landing.

In 2004, an attempt got passed and again they got the chance to explore the red planet.

The efforts for finding any traces of life components on the red planet were carried on.

everything he did with his team was immensely inspirational and develops in the individual- the quality of rejuvenating the different vision for the nature.

To get more feel about his work in decoding mars   click here

And many more……….

The smile of excellence.

Software Development Engineer

He also worked at Microsoft and 

Designed, developed, tested, and

shipped software in C++ for interfacing and

synchronizing mobile devices with

Microsoft Exchange servers.

Above is highlighted some of the works by

Ben but there is alot more to know about him. 

 

Let’s know about him 

                                

Benjamin Cichy – the principal systems

architect for blue origin

He had lead numerous systems and

software engineering positions at NASA’s

Goddard Space Flight Center and

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Beside being the

Mission System Engineer at Goddard for the

Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission,

the Project System Engineer

for the Mars 2020 mission

through Mission Concept Review,

the Chief Software Engineer on the

Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission,

and an Entry Descent and

Landing Systems Engineer on the Phoenix Mars lander,

Ben has been honoured with two

NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medals,

a NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, and

multiple NASA Group Achievement Awards, for his work.

 

 Ben holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in

Computer Science from

Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and

also a Master’s degree in

Aerospace Engineering from the

University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

He married Emily Cichy and

has three children. He is an American engineer.

 

 

 

The GPA effect

 

 

  Nowadays , his tweet is becoming popular

among the youth:

highlighting the importance of real passion over just

studying and passing with graduate degrees.

It is a psychological fact that tracing some other

individual’s mind is impossible,

no one actually can feel and

think about that moment and his state of mind

when he got his academic result as 2.4GPA! 

                                             

                           Yes its two point four !

 

 

 

 

 

Conclusion

Ultimately you will move upon the path of your decisions but its important to develop a good and appropriate analyzing power although things can be understood as time passes and experience increases by overcoming and tackling the obstructions.

Mathematically one can understand the concept of life as:

F(life)=sinx         

 

and it can be

 

F(life)≠mx+c

                                                                                                   (Penned by Tushar)