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Forwarded from John Mosley (jmosley@earthlink.net)
Subject: Galileo Talk at Griffith Observatory

FRIENDS OF THE OBSERVATORY Presents:
THE GALILEO MISSION TO JUPITER-THE DARING RETURN TO IO: MOON OF 
VOLCANOES AND FIRE
By Nagin Cox
of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Monday, February 7, 2000, 7:30 p.m.
At Griffith Observatory

In 1492, explorers found a "New World" called America. Now, in our own time,
another invincible ship is pushing at the frontiers of our knowledge. For
four years, the Galileo spacecraft has been in orbit around Jupiter sending
back stunning new images of this giant planet and it's incredible moons.
This year Galileo completed another stage of its mission - exploring the
mysterious moon Europa. Does Europa have an ocean? Galileo's data is
essential to answering that question. Now from October 1999 through the
start of the year 2000, Galileo is in the midst of one of its greatest
challenges- returning to the volcanic moon Io - deep in the heart of
Jupiter's radiation belts. Come relive the journey through the solar system,
experience the excitement of arrival at Jupiter and share in the wonder of
Galileo's ongoing voyage of discovery.

In 1986, Nagin graduated from Cornell University with a BS in Operations
Research Engineering and a BA in Psychology and was commissioned as an
officer in the US Air Force. As a lieutenant, she was stationed at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio and worked as a systems engineer in
F-16 aircrew training. Then she attended the Air Force Institute of
Technology where she received a masters degree in Space Operations Systems
Engineering in 1990. As a captain, she served as an Orbital Analyst at
NORAD/Space Command in Cheyenne
Mountain, Colorado Springs.

In 1993, after leaving the Air Force to pursue more civilian space
applications, she joined JPL as a ground data system engineer. At the same
time, she served for two additional years in the Air Force Reserve as a
Space Operations Officer. In 1995, she transferred into JPL's Spacecraft
Systems Engineering Section and she is currently working as Deputy Team
Chief of the engineering spacecraft flight team for NASA/JPL's Galileo
mission to Jupiter.

Friends Of The Observatory (FOTO) is the non-profit support group for
Griffith Observatory.  Currently, one of FOTO's primary goals is to support
the renovation and expansion of the Observatory, so that it continues to
provide the nearly 2 million visitors and 50,000 school children annually
with accurate astronomical and scientific information and programs and
remains the internationally recognizable icon of Los Angeles.

Admission: $2 for FOTO members, $5 for non-members, tickets available 
at the door.

For more information call FOTO at (818) 846-3686; fotofriend@earthlink.net
(Children under 5 are not admitted)

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