{"id":3129,"date":"2025-02-27T10:45:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thexradio3.com\/news\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2025-02-27T10:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:46:38","slug":"explore-space-at-the-library-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/3129-explore-space-at-the-library-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore Space at the Library Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Get a closer look at the space industry with Illinois native Coralie Adam in \u201cExploring Space\u201d live via Zoom from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 4 at the Suzette Brumleve Memorial Effingham Public Library. She\u2019ll be joined in conversation by Renae Kerrigan, director of the Dome Planetarium at the Peoria Riverfront Museum.<\/p>\n<p>(CORALIE ADAM)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CoralieAdam-150.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adam currently leads the multi-mission Optical Navigation team at KinetX Aerospace, the first privately held company to provide deep space navigation and flight dynamics expertise to NASA. Additionally, she has had lead roles on the navigation teams for NASA\u2019s New Horizons, OSIRIS-REx, Lucy and OSIRIS-APEX missions. Her work enabled the first exploration of the Pluto system and the historic sample collection of near-Earth asteroid Bennu.<\/p>\n<p>Born and raised in Illinois, Adam holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in Aerospace Engineering and Astronomy from the University of Illinois, and a master\u2019s degree in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>This event is made possible by Illinois Libraries Present, 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 Museum and Library Services, under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act.<\/p>\n<p>This is a free event, but registration is required. A library card is not required. Visit effinghamlibrary.org, email <a href=\"mailto:info@effinghamlibrary.org\">info@effinghamlibrary.org<\/a> or call 217-342-2464, Ext. 1, to learn more about this or other library programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get a closer look at the space industry with Illinois native Coralie Adam in \u201cExploring Space\u201d live via Zoom from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 4 at the Suzette [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Explore Space at the Library Tuesday - 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