{"id":614470,"date":"2023-11-14T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?post_type=stem-content&p=614470"},"modified":"2024-02-22T11:07:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T16:07:49","slug":"surprisingly-stem-thermal-blanket-technician","status":"publish","type":"stem-content","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/surprisingly-stem-thermal-blanket-technician\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprisingly STEM: Thermal Blanket Technician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ll surely get wrapped up in this episode of Surprisingly STEM featuring Paula Cain, a thermal blanket technician at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center. She covers why things sent into space need to be protected by a thermal blanket, and shares how two of her passions \u2013 fashion design and Star Trek \u2013 were interwoven into an exciting career at NASA!<\/p>\n<p>Find out how Paula Cain took her of love of sewing and fashion design and transformed that love into her career at NASA as a thermal blanket technician. Thermal blankets, or \u201cclothes for spacecraft,\u201d help spacecraft function in the extreme environment of space. NASA\u2019s Thermal Blanket Lab is a vital part of ensuring that the important equipment that NASA sends into space remains protected from getting too hot or too cold.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly STEM is a video series that highlights exciting and unexpected careers at NASA. 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