Solarsphere: ANNOUNCEMENT!! Sadly Andy Green is no longer to come along and give his Apollo …

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ANNOUNCEMENT!! Sadly Andy Green is no longer to come along and give his Apollo talk, we wish him all the best with his recovery.
HOWEVER… there will still be an Apollo 11 talk and this will be presented by the wonderful 'ROBIN MOBBS'. Robin is lead educator with the National Space Academy, mentor for the Stimulation Physics Network of the Institute of Physics and was Space Ambassador for the Tim Peake Primary Project.
His particular interest lies in human spaceflight with personal knowledge gained from discussions with many Astronauts.

The Talk:

Apollo 11

At 20:17:39 GMT on July 20th 1969 the Apollo 11 Lunar Module landed on the Moon. Six and a half hours later Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface and announced " That's one small step for man … one giant leap for mankind." About twenty minutes later Buzz Aldrin joined him while Michael Collins orbited in the Control Service Module above. Historic moments for mankind as the world watched the flickering pictures on black and white televisions.

This talk explains how they did it; the way they operated the Saturn V rocket that took them there, the new technologies that had to be developed, the operating techniques that had to be formulated, practised and refined, how they navigated their way through cislunar space to land safely (just), The astronauts trained for their ground-breaking journey believing that they had a 50/50 chance of returning to their watching families.

Now, 50 years later, there are plans for humans to return to the Moon and then go onwards to Mars. But who will get there first? Is another space race starting?

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