Wow this gives me flashbacks. I interned there one summer, working on a project that was in absolute crunch mode with no budget left for the fiscal year. I an

Wow this gives me flashbacks. I interned there one summer, working on a project that was in absolute crunch mode with no budget left for the fiscal year. I and some other interns got press-ganged into helping assemble a prototype device ahead of a visit from some higher-ups at (I think) JSC, and I ended doing a lot of soldering - something I had only a little experience with before that summer. As I was learning, I spent a lot of time with one of the electrical engineers scrutinizing my practice pieces under microscope for tiny scratches in the conductor and little burn marks. I also distinctly remember burning my fingers over and over using the thermal wire-stripper, since it tended to made the conductor extremely hot. I ultimately ended up having very little confidence in my workmanship, and when I found out that the thing we were working on might end up flying on the ISS, I became terrified that I would read about a fire on the station someday and not know if it was because of something I had messed up. That was also the summer I got my first gray hair.