Nagin Cox Biography

Nagin Cox has been exploring since she decided as a teenager that she wanted to work at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She was born in Bangalore India and grew up in Kansas City Kansas and Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Her experiences as a child in a Muslim household showed her how easily we separate ourselves based on gender race or nationality and it inspired her to do something that brings people together instead of dividing them. The Space Program helps the world look up and remember that we are one world. Thus she has known from the time she was 14 years old that she wanted to work on missions of robotic space exploration.Cox realized her childhood dream and has been a spacecraft operations engineer at NASA/JPL for over 20 years. She has held leadership and system engineering positions on interplanetary robotic missions including the Galileo mission to Jupiter the Mars Exploration Rovers the Kepler exoplanet hunter InSight and the Mars Curiosity Rover.In 2015 Cox was honored as the namesake for Asteroid 14061 by its discovers. She has also received the NASA Exceptional Service Medal and two NASA Exceptional Achievement Medals. She is a U.S. Department of State STEM Speaker and has spoken to audiences around the world on the stories of the people behind the missions. She has also served on Cornell University

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