Erkin Sidick is a senior optical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. When he's not busy building space telescopes meant to detect planets outside of our solar system, he's speaking publicly about the plight of his Uighur people in China.

<p>Erkin Sidick&nbsp;is a senior optical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. When he's not busy building&nbsp;<a href="https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/">space telescopes</a>&nbsp;meant to detect planets outside of our solar system, he's speaking publicly about the plight of his Uighur people in China.</p>

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