NASA engineer Mallory Jennings '10 and WSU 2024 CosmoShox team to give public presentations
on human safety in space
Aug. 13, 2024
By Ad Astra Kansas
Mallory Jennings, the first speaker at the free 2024 Ad Astra Galaxy Forum at the
Cosmosphere, is a NASA expert in charge of spacesuit, spacewalks, jetpacks and more
at Johnson Space Center.
She is also local. The NASA EVA (extravehicular activity) Operation Lead Engineer
is a 2010 Wichita State graduate in mechanical engineering and a 2005 Goddard High
School graduate. Attendees can view an actual spacesuit while Jennings explains about
the challenges and solutions for human safety in space and shares about her work
at NASA. She has been involved in over 70 spacewalks.
Also at the Ad Astra Galaxy Forum on August 24 will be the WSU CosmoShox, an interdisciplinary
team in the Open XR Lab at WSU, were NASA finalists in the 2024 NASA SUITS ( Spacesuit
User Interface Technologies for Students) Design Competition. They will talk about
and demo the innovative interfaces with an augment reality (A/R) head gear they developed
for possible use by an astronaut in space.
Solar System Ambassador Jeanette Bosch and Ad Astra Kansas board member Steve Durst
will also speak.
This FREE event, open to the public, will be Saturday, August 24, from 1-3 p.m. at
the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson. It is sponsored by the Ad Astra Kansas Foundation.
Register at contact@adastra-ks.org. Attendees will receive a free pass to the Hall of Space Museum after the Forum.
It will also be live streamed on the AAKF Facebook page
