#42 Taking Moonshots at NASA with Dr. Alinda Mashiku

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The Authority Advantage Podcast

Modesta Mahiga

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The Authority Advantage Podcast — by Authority Global™, the premier executive branding and strategy firm. Hosted by Modesta Mahiga, this leadership and branding podcast reveals how executives and organizations transform visibility into influence and influence into global authority. Each episode delivers actionable insights on executive branding, organizational credibility, and thought leadership — helping leaders and their organizations build trust, attract global opportunities, and command their industries. Subscribe now — and discover why authority is the advantage.

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#42 Taking Moonshots at NASA with Dr. Alinda Mashiku

The Authority Advantage Podcast

1 hour 8 minutes 26 seconds

7 months ago

#42 Taking Moonshots at NASA with Dr. Alinda Mashiku

In this episode, Dr. Alinda Mashiku, a real-life rocket scientist, talks about taking moonshots at NASA and in life. Her message? Set a stretch goal that matters, make bold moves, and if you fail, don't tap out—recalibrate, get back on course, and don't give up until you reach your destination.

Dr. Alinda Mashiku is the Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis (CARA) Program Manager at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. The CARA program is an agency function that is responsible for providing risk analysis for ~100 un-crewed satellite missions to prevent on-orbit collisions and ensure the safety of the space environment.

In this role, she is responsible for providing programmatic and technical leadership for ground operations elements, interfacing with multiple mission operations centers, and overseeing various advanced technologies and engineering application areas.

Dr. Mashiku joined NASA in 2013 as a spacecraft navigation and mission trajectory design engineer, supporting various missions, such as the James-Webb Space Telescope and the OSIRIS-Rex mission.

She is the author or co-author of over a dozen conference and journal papers and has received multiple NASA Awards, including the 2020 Engineering and Technology Directorate Excellence in Safety & Quality Assurance Award and a 2020 NASA Mission Engineering and Systems Analysis Division Individual Special Act Award. She was also a recipient of the NASA GSRP (Graduate Student Research Program) Fellowship from 2010 to 2013.

Dr. Mashiku is also the Co-Founder and President of The Joule Foundation Inc. This 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization runs STEAM-based workshops for high-school girls in Tanzania, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe.

Dr. Mashiku obtained her bachelor’s degree Cum Laude in Aerospace Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2007, and then both her master’s and PhD in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University in 2009 and 2013 consecutively.

She lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her wonderful husband and two amazing boys.