WEST LAFAYETTE — Michelle Munk, an aerospace engineer at NASA's Langley Research Center, will speak at Purdue on Nov. 20 about her career.
The talk, “From the Beach to Mars: One Engineer's Journey,” will be at 5:30 p.m. in Armstrong Hall, Room B061. It is sponsored by the Women in Engineering Program and the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics and is free and open to the public. Munk will share insights about the limitations of current systems for landing humans on Mars and discuss how NASA is approaching that challenge for the future.
Most recently, Munk worked on instrumentation of the heat shield on the Mars Science Laboratory. The MSL heat shield instrumentation was the most extensive ever sent to Mars and returned an invaluable data set that is influencing the missions of the future.
