posted 08-21-2006 10:42 AM               

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Lunar Orbiter 40th Anniversary Panel Discussion

Monday, August 21, 2006, 2 – 3:30pm
William M. Allen Theater, The Museum Of Flight

The Lunar Orbiter's mission was to photograph potential landing sites for Apollo. It ultimately mapped the entire front side of the Moon and more than 95 percent of the Moon's far side. A photograph taken by the Lunar Orbiter forty years ago on August 23, 1966, has been hailed as the most significant photograph taken in the 20th century. Meet panelists Capt. Lee Scherer, USN (Ret.) the Lunar Orbiter Program Manager in the Office of Lunar and Planetary Programs at NASA headquarters; Matt Grogan, a member of the Lunar Orbiter Flight Path Analysis and Control (FPAC) team and worked at NASA's Manned Space Flight Center on Apollo flights 8–15; and Apollo 8 astronaut and fighter pilot Bill Anders USAF Reserve, (Ret.) who will share the importance of the orbiter to astronaut training. Panel moderator Dale Shellhorn, also a member of the FPAC team, was part of the crew that took the first picture of the Earth from deep space.

Presentation is free with Museum admission.

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posted 08-21-2006 01:17 PM               

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Originally posted by tegwilym:
I would have gone to see that, but 2pm on a Monday?? Unfortunately, I have to do something called "work".

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I bet Anders calls this "work" too ... and wants his evening off ... ;-))