Please set the hours of 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM on Saturday, October 15th aside for the annual CALPACS luncheon. Please join us for drinks, lunch and a talk about extraterrestrial chemistry. Taylore McClurg of NASA’s Jet Propulsions Laboratory (JPL) will speak to the section about her experiences working on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and being in charge of retrieving samples from Mars.
A buffet lunch with choices of chicken, beef and vegetarian dishes will be served.
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Speaker: Taylore McClurg, NASA JPL
Title: Engineering Challenges with the James Webb Space Telescope and the Mars Rover
Date & Time: Saturday, 10/15/22, 11:00 – 14:00
Place: UCSBMosher Alumni House
Cost: $10, $5 for students
Taylore McClurg:
As early as she can remember, Taylore wanted to be an astronaut. But when she watched the movie Apollo 13, where the engineers in mission control must to find a way to create a C02 scrubbing system with only the items available to the astronauts in space, she knew she wanted to do that. Solve the complex problems of being and traveling in space. Taylore earned her B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering as Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and joined Northrop Grumman after graduation. In her 13 years at Northrop Grumman, she has worked on weather satellites, lunar mission, communications satellites, and, for 8 of those 13 years, the James Webb Space Telescope. Taylore lead the requirements and verification team for the spacecraft element and observatory, ensuring all the requirements for mission success were verified – proving the system will work to NASA. Now with JWST operating and producing the amazing science we all hoped for, Taylore has taken a position at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory working as the verification lead for the Mars Sample Return Lander. This Sample Return mission will bring back the Martian soil samples currently being collected by the Perseverance Rover.