Kellogg grad to speak on deep space exploration
Sue Linch, pictured during the Odyssey mission, will be speaking about deep space exploration at a special event being sponsored by the Selkirk Alliance for Science on July 26. A Kellogg high School graduate, Linch is the daughter of John Linch, the former president of the Newport/Priest River Rotary Club.
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Selkirk Alliance for Science has invited Sue Linch, spacecraft manager for the Lockheed Martin Lunar Exploration Campaign, to speak at a Power of Science presentation on “Why We Explore Deep Space.”
The free event is scheduled at 6 p.m. Saturday, July 26, at the Camas Center for Community Wellness, 1821 LeClerc Road North, Cusick, Wash.
Linch is a graduate of Kellogg High School, University of Idaho and the George Washington University Joint Institute for Advancement of Flight Sciences.
She has worked on space station and shuttle projects, Earth atmosphere and solar studies, deep space asteroid monitoring and lunar communication and navigation systems. She is presently working to develop nuclear electric power and propulsion for applications in deep space or the space between Earth and moon or moon’s orbit.