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Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
Michelle Thaller: Dancing With The Stars
Season 2012
Episode 4
Michelle Thaller finds dance partners across time and space. Michelle Thaller is an astronomer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. She loves to study binary stars and the life cycles of the stars. In her off-hours, Michelle often puts on about 30 lbs of Elizabethan garb and performs intricate Renaissance dances.
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