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Oct 13, 2026
Chasing the Astronaut Dream with The Inspired 24 | Andrew Parris
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Eiman JahangirHOST
How did you end up as a TV engineer working for NASA? Like, walk us through what that process was like.
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9:55Andrew ParrisGUEST
All right, well, uh, I, I, somehow I knew I'd end up in Houston when I was younger.
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9:59Andrew ParrisGUEST
I ended up, my first actual paid TV job was at a small station in, um, Harlingen, Texas.
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10:05Andrew ParrisGUEST
And so it was in Texas, and I knew about Houston, and then an opportunity for me to work at a TV station in Houston came up.
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10:11Andrew ParrisGUEST
So I took that job, um, and my first weekend I was off, ran down to Johnson Space Center, did the tour, and this was actually before Space Center Houston, and, uh, did the, the tours, bought all the patches I could.
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10:24Andrew ParrisGUEST
And I remember walking through the, uh, museum, which is in the back of Building 2 South, and Building 2 South is the, where the auditorium is.
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