"Apollo may be the only achievement for which our generation is remembered, a 1000 years from now," said author of 2001: Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clark
Twelve Americans walked on the moon. Others have tried but only Americans succeeded. No human has been out of earth orbit since 1972 when the last man on the moon, Gene Cernan returned home with his Apollo 17 crew. In the race to the moon with the Russians, Ed Buckbee was a NASA spokesman who worked with all the Apollo astronauts, including the now famous moon walkers. His personal stories of this brotherhood of astronauts who competed for moon shots are the real deal. The competition for rides, the close calls, near tragedies and splashdown parties are told as he experienced them as a close colleague of these famous space flyers. He relates how they trained and encounters he had with the astronauts before they became famous moon walkers.
Buckbee describes Neil Armstrong's descent to the moon as his fuel runs out with only seconds remaining. He takes you behind the scenes during the Apollo I fire that killed three astronauts and Apollo 13 that nearly became the lost in space mission, "Houston, we have a problem." Ride along with John Young as he drives the lunar rover, the ultimate driving machine on the moon. Only three days by Saturn rocket to the moon, Buckbee describes the mammoth machine and you listen in as the Saturn riders exclaim, "Whew, what a ride!" Blast off the moon with the last man to walk on the moon, Gene Cernan, as he flies his moon ship home. Where are those moonwalkers today? What do you do after you have been to the moon? Buckbee takes you to the moon and back in his exciting and dramatic MOON WALKER presentation.
Ed Buckbee, alumnus of NASA public affairs, lecturer, founder of Space Camp and Astronaut Hall of Fame and author of The Real Space Cowboys and 50 Years of Rockets and Spacecraft, presents a Power Point presentation with rarely seen manned space flight photos and videos, designed for all audiences.
Students should prepare questions in advance, based on the information sent to the teacher. The test connection for this program is scheduled on February 24, 2010 at 2:00pm ET.
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2/26/2010
1:00 pm. ET
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