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Dr. Kimberly Ennico Smith has a unique job at NASA. She often finds herself destroying things—whether potential detectors for the James Webb Space Telescope or crashing LCROSS into the Moon. Her current job for SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, is a little different. She's uncovering mysteries in the Universe.

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