Beginner Special Interest Group
February Meeting
Saturday February 24th – 1PM to 3PM
Featured Speaker: Dave Falkner
Topic: “Discovering the Moon: Missions to the Moon and What We Have Discovered”
The talk will begin with a brief summary on the historical importance of the Moon including telescopic discoveries. He will then go into the early space program and the Cold War space race between the USSR and the United States to send a man to the Moon and the discoveries made during the Apollo missions. Dave will follow that up with the post-Apollo unmanned missions by various countries and some of the significant discoveries that have been made. He’ll wrap up by talking about plans for mankind returning to the Moon and possibly colonizing it.
This will be a virtual meeting.
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