{"id":10988,"date":"2024-04-01T06:58:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T05:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polispace.it\/?p=10988"},"modified":"2024-04-05T14:15:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T13:15:05","slug":"dr-giuseppe-cataldo-the-man-behind-the-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polispace.it\/dr-giuseppe-cataldo-the-man-behind-the-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Giuseppe Cataldo: The Man Behind the Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
Last year, in mid-December, PoliSpace organized an interesting conference hosting Dr. Giuseppe Cataldo who spoke about the MSR Campaign.<\/a><\/strong> He currently works planetary protection in the MSR Program Office.\u00a0 We are often used to thinking of engineers working at NASA as superhumans of a completely different breed. This may be true, but every great story starts somewhere. Dr. Cataldo\u2019s story started 38 years ago in a little town in southern Italy in Puglia. At that time, he probably couldn\u2019t even imagine that one day he would have been at NASA working on some of its major programs, but something had already clicked in him. A spark of curiosity that, as he said, made him stare at the immense sky wondering what was out there. From that question, a cascade of events took place. He learnt the names of the constellation and read everything he could to satisfy his curiosity. As many of us have experienced, the more you understand the more you realize you don\u2019t know, thus his rush for knowledge kept and keep going.<\/p>