The Teenager Who Tricked NASA Into Giving Him a Job
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A seventeen-year-old kid walked into NASA and convinced them he was a twenty-nine-year-old rocket scientist with a PhD from MIT. And they gave him a job supervising thirty engineers. wait, they gave him WHAT A corner office, a budget of several million dollars, and the title of Section Chief at Goddard Space Flight…
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