Posts: 42986 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 07-02-2019 07:53 PM
NASA release
NASA's Giant Leaps: Past and Future
On July 19, 2019, NASA's Giant Leaps: Past and Future will air 1 to 3 p.m. EDT on NASA TV and the agency's website, and will be simulcast on the Discovery Science Channel. Hosted from the agency's Kennedy Space Center, the show will salute the heroes of Apollo and discuss the agency's future plans, with segments at:
The National Mall in Washington
NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, including the newly restored Apollo Mission Control Operations Room and Space Center Houston, Johnson's official visitors center
The U.S. Space & Rocket Center near NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama
Neil Armstrong's hometown of Wapakoneta, Ohio
The Apollo 11 command module on display at the Museum of Flight in Seattle
The show also will feature slices of Americana at other anniversary celebrations around the country.
At 3 p.m., NASA TV will air a special program, STEM Forward to the Moon, which will feature kids participating in Moon landing simulations at four partner museums across the nation:
Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas
Saint Louis Science Center in St. Louis
Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey, California
Arizona Science Center in Phoenix
NASA also will bring Apollo 50th anniversary participants together to take part in a virtual engineering design challenge on social media. Along with each of its museum partners, NASA invites the public to help build a component of NASA's return to the Moon using simple household materials.
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Posts: 946 From: Washington, IL Registered: Jan 2006
posted 07-28-2019 02:36 PM
Got lucky to watch the NASA'S Giant Leaps: Past and Future special event on NASA TV. It would of been neat if they would of have announced the crew for the Artemis-2 mission on this day? It was a great special to watch!!