Get an inside look at the space industry w ith Illinois&rsquo\; own Coralie Adam. She&rsquo\;ll be joined in conversa tion by Renae Kerrigan\, Curator of Science and Director of the Dome Plane tarium at Peoria Riverfront Museum.
\nBorn and raised in Illinois\, Coralie holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and Astronomy from the Unive rsity of Illinois\, and an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado. She leads the multi-mission Optical Navigation te am at KinetX Aerospace\, the first privately held company to provide deep space navigation and flight dynamics expertise to NASA. At KinetX\, Corali e has had lead roles on the navigation teams for NASA&rsquo\;s New Horizon s\, OSIRIS-REx\, Lucy\, and OSIRIS-APEX missions. Coralie&rsquo\;s work en abled the first exploration of the Pluto system and the historic sample co llection of near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In addition to leading the OSIRIS-R Ex optical navigation team\, she co-convened the scientific investigation of Bennu&rsquo\;s active particle ejection phenomena. Coralie is currently the Deputy Navigation Chief on NASA&rsquo\;s Lucy mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids\, as well as supporting several commercial and government exploration initiatives to the moon and beyond.
\nThis event is mad e possible by Illinois Libraries Present (ILP)\, a statewide collaboration among public libraries offering premier events. ILP is funded in part by a grant awarded by the Illinois State Library\, a department of the Office of Secretary of State\, using funds provided by the U.S. Institute of Mus eum and Library Services\, under the provisions of the Library Services an d Technology Act (LSTA).
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