About Us
SpaceOkies started, as most things do these days, with a Facebook post. My mom in Oklahoma posted a screenshot of me on console in Mission Control for the NASA TV coverage of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus Spacecraft, which is a cargo vehicle in support of life on the International Space Station. My Mom’s friends started watching Cygnus launches with their kid and I started receiving letters from kids back home in Oklahoma. I did my best to write them back and to send Cygnus posters. I started sharing her Pen Pal campaign with my other Oklahoman colleagues before/after meetings. These conversations caused us to start reflecting on our time growing up in various educational backgrounds in Oklahoma and all the things we wished we knew when we started. We also started to look around our Mission Control rooms, design teams, launch sites, and organizations and realized that there were not that many of us from Oklahoma. Overtime we started sharing Oklahoma outreach activities and helping each other find new schools to talk to. We jokingly called ourselves the SpaceOkies.
This is the photo my (Meg) mom posted to facebook that started it all!
Meet The SpaceOkies
Meg Lang, EIT
Meg Lang is an Electrical Engineer, leading power engineering for the Human Space Exploration portfolio at Northrop Grumman Corporation, which includes projects like the James Webb Space Telescope, the Lunar Gateway, International Space Station Resupply Services, and the Mars Transit Vehicle design Meg holds a degree in Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering from Oklahoma State University, focused on instrumentation and control system design in biological environments. Meg is passionate about encouraging the next generation’s interest in space exploration, with a special focus on the importance of diversity in the future of space exploration. Meg believes that if you can see it, you can be it and that, by sharing her love for human spaceflight with children in Oklahoma, those kids will have the opportunity to see themselves using their unique talents in supporting the future of human space exploration. It is Meg’s dream that the future of human spaceflight be Oklahoman.
“We Need Everyone: The Importance of Diversity in Human Space Exploration”Working with NASA ScienceJoElla Delheimer
JoElla does lots of cool things and her Bio would go here :)
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