Meet the Filipina Engineer Who Struggled in Math But Now Works at NASA

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While most five-year-olds have big dreams of becoming a doctor or making it big in Hollywood, Filipina engineer Josephine Santiago-Bond took the more practical approach: “As a child, I always knew I would go to college, get a job, try to earn enough to afford the things I need and want, but I had not envisioned a particular profession,” she reveals in an interview with SPOT.ph. Turns out, it was enough to bring her halfway across the world: The halls of the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida, one of the 10 National Aeronautics and Space Administration sites, where she now heads the agency’s Advanced Engineering Development Branch.