NASA employee comes to Museum of Idaho
With the new Space Exhibit opening at the Museum of Idaho, there is a guest in town who works with NASA.
“One of the missions of NASA, besides to areonauctics and astronautics the two other things written in our charters, we have to help the economic competitive of the United States and train the next generation of scientists and engineers,” said Randii Wessen, Lead Study Architect for JPL’s Innovation Foundry A-Team.
“And it’s museums like this that help get individuals excited about it. So whatever NASA can do to leverage what we’re doing to museums around the country, we want to do.”
Wessen is the keynote speaker for tonight’s VIP reception at the museum.
He helps plan missions to space, the missions NASA is carrying out right now and future plans.
He’s in Idaho Falls to kick off the new museum exhibit, but he says, like the museum, Idaho Falls has the Idaho National Laboratory which makes this area great for advancing science.
“And Idaho National Laboratory helps us make these — basically they’re radioactive batteries that generate electrical power for our deep-space spacecraf,” said Wessen.” So the Curiosity Rover on Mars uses these batteries. The Casini uses these generators, really.”
Tonight’s VIPS will be able to hear him talk more about the future of space.
The new museum exhibit covering man’s history in space officially opens to the public tomorrow morning.
NASA will be back in Idaho Falls in August to experience the total solar eclipse in its path of totality.
