Apollo 11/Space Exploration Day
*The event has already taken place on this date: Sat, 07/23/2022
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Please join the USS Hornet Museum as we host our annual Apollo 11 Splashdown/Space Exploration Day on July 23rd from 10 am to 5 pm. We have a very exciting program for the whole family and hope you can make it this year! We will have a presentation from NASA, a panel on Space Exploration and many other fun activities for everyone.
Special Guests include:
Sarah Cruddas. Sarah is a space journalist, international TV host and award winning author. She has an academic background in astrophysics and is a global thought leader in the growing commercial space sector.
James Anderson. James Anderson is a NASA historian based at Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.
Seth Shostak Seth Shostak is Senior Astronomer and Institute Fellow at the SETI Institute.
Amaresh Kollipara As the Chief Revenue Officer of OffWorld, Amaresh is creating markets for an autonomous robotic workforce starting with large-scale deployments around the world, with eventual applications in space.
Daniel Wheeler Bursch (born July 25, 1957 is a former NASA astronaut, and Captain of the United States Navy.
Clarence (Clancy) Hatleberg Navy Frogman and first person to greet the astronauts when they returned to earth.
Robert Fish Hornet Historian. He also created the award winning Apollo 11 spacecraft recovery exhibit onboard the museum and published a highly acclaimed book about the recovery of Apollo 11 called Hornet Plus Three.
Bill Miklos, Hornet Docent, Air Force veteran, longtime Lockheed employee and Space expert, will be giving his presentation “An engineering View of the Apollo 11 Mission, Reentry, Splashdown , Recovery and Contamination Control” in the Wardroom a few times during the day. Schedule will be posted.
By popular demand we will also have our friends from the local Star Wars costume clubs, the Rebel Legion-Endor Base, 501st Legion-Golden Gate Garrison, the Wolves of Mandalore and the Droids on board for you to see and take pictures with.
We will have a Model Rocket display and a special exhibit: A TRAVELING SPACE EXHIBIT (Educating Adults and Children about Space Exploration through the use of Space Artifacts, Models and Lego.)
We will also have a book signing event with Sarah Cruddas and her children’s book “The Space Race, The Journey to the Moon and Beyond” after the rest of the day’s program is finished.
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