The Petroleum Museum’s Brown Bag Lunch and Lectures give our community the chance to visit with authors, scientists, artists, and historians who recount the petroleum industry’s beginning, present, and future, along with topics of local and historical interest.  These lectures are sponsored by Norma J. McGrew & Hahl Proctor Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee. Admission is always free. Drinks and dessert are provided.

September 10th – Speaker: Kalle Vähä-Jaakkola – How Midland, Oil, and Gas are at the Forefront of Space Exploration

Midland was once the pathway to the western expansion of the United States. Now it will be the pathway to humanity’s expansion to space. After a decade of adventures worthy of a book and working in the space community, Space Nation has found its home in Midland, Texas – at the heart of the global human spaceflight ecosystem. Space Nation’s international team and community are creating ways for anyone in the world to experience space first-hand. Join us as Kalle Vähä-Jaakkola, Captain and Co-founder of Space Nation, tells the story of how Midland connects the resourcefulness of pioneers, the boldness of wildcatters, and the ingenuity of the oil and gas industry uniquely to space exploration. Kalle will share how these skills and attitudes built the modern world and will build our future cities and industries in space in the future.

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