MIDLAND Join Museum of the Southwest, 1705 W Missouri Ave, Midland, on Saturday, July 15, for an evening exploring space, robotics, and women in STEM. Spacecraft Operations Engineer, Nagin Cox, will introduce the film, “Good Night Oppy,” at 6 p.m. and invites guests to stick around after for an exclusive Q&A session.
Venture Robotics will also be on campus exhibiting their robots.
Cox graduated from Cornell University with a BS in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering and a BA in Psychology and was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. She worked in F-16 Aircrew Training and received a masters degree in Space Operations Systems Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.
As a captain, she served as an Orbital Analyst at NORAD/Space Command in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado Springs.
In 1993, Cox joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and has since served as a systems engineer and manager on multiple interplanetary robotic missions including NASA/JPL’s Galileo mission to Jupiter, the Mars Exploration Rover Missions and the Kepler telescope mission to search for Earth-like planets around other stars.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
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