Victor Joel Cabezas Tapia, a Navigation, Guidance, and Control Engineer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, speaks about his path to working at NASA during an interactive STEM discussion with students attending the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Victor Joel Cabezas Tapia, a Navigation, Guidance, and Control Engineer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, speaks about his path to working at NASA during an interactive STEM discussion with students attending the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock, left, is joined by a panel of young professionals from NASA centers across the country: Farah Alibay, a systems engineer working on the Mars 2020 rover at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Alexis Vance, a Pathways student engineering trainee at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Victor Joel Cabezas Tapia, a Navigation, Guidance, and Control Engineer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, and Breanne Stichler, a mechanical engineer in the Crawlers, Transporters and Structures group at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, during an interactive STEM discussion with students attending the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock is seen during an interactive STEM discussion with students attending the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Wheelock was joined by a panel of young professionals from NASA centers across the country: Farah Alibay, a systems engineer working on the Mars 2020 rover at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Alexis Vance, a Pathways student engineering trainee at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Victor Joel Cabezas Tapia, a Navigation, Guidance, and Control Engineer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, and Breanne Stichler, a mechanical engineer in the Crawlers, Transporters and Structures group at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)