{"id":14617,"date":"2016-01-03T19:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=14617"},"modified":"2016-01-03T19:00:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T00:00:45","slug":"my-clemson-melissa-clevenger-duffy-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/my-clemson-melissa-clevenger-duffy-08\/","title":{"rendered":"My Clemson: Melissa Clevenger Duffy \u201908"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Melissa<\/a>MY CLEMSON:\u00a0<\/strong>Melissa Clevenger Duffy \u201908<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This past summer marked a significant milestone for NASA when the New Horizons spacecraft finally reached Pluto after more than nine years and more than three billion miles traveled.\u00a0I couldn\u2019t help but reflect back on my great fortune to have been involved in fueling the spacecraft and playing a part in such an historic mission for the space program.
\n\"Melissa<\/a>
\nHowever, I never would have had this opportunity if it weren\u2019t for the wonderful people and programs at Clemson.\u00a0After my freshman year, I joined the Cooperative Education Program and with the help of the advisers I became the first chemical engineering co-op from Clemson to work for NASA at Kennedy Space Center.\u00a0It was during my time as a co-op student that I participated in the fueling of the New Horizons spacecraft.
\nThe co-op program not only enabled me to further develop my skills as an engineer, but also allowed me to take part in these once-in-a-lifetime opportunities.\u00a0This past year I supported the testing of MORPHEUS, an autonomous lander that was used to develop the technology that will enable us to land on Mars one day. And as you can see, I\u00a0proudly wear my Clemson hat!
\nMelissa Clevenger Duffy graduated in 2008 with a B.S. in chemical engineering with a minor in business. She lives in Orlando and works for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center.\u00a0She\u00a0is also currently working on her\u00a0master\u2019s degree in industrial engineering.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":14507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,8],"tags":[594,823,2016,2025,3299,3300],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumniprofiles","category-my-clemson","tag-chemical-engineering","tag-cooperative-education-program","tag-my-clemson-2","tag-nasa","tag-winter-2016","tag-winter-2016-alumni-profiles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/12\/Melissa-Clevenger-Duffy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14617"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}