Charged. Its a special day, an auspicious day. Were honored to have with us a panel of four important engineers, my personal heros when i was growing up. I was only 14 when you did the miracle back in 1969. I tried very hard to get here and follow in your footsteps as quickly as i could. We have a panel thats going to talk about lunar module landing operations today. If you want to know what that is, theyll tell you about it as we go around. The panel is jack knight, bob nance, harold loden, and bill reeves. Ill have them to identify themselves, say a little bit about what they did, and then open it up a little bit for questions. By the way, since i didnt introduce myself, im john charles, the scientist in residence here. Id like to turn the microphone over to mr. Knight to talk a little bit about what you did here for apollo 11 and what brought you here in the first place, and your recollections of that important day. Okay. I was the son of an air force family. We were in various base
Moon landing. This was part of an event hosted by Space Center Houston to mark the missions 50th anniversary. Good morning and happy Lunar Landing day. [ cheers and applause ] its great to have you here. Tracy lamm we are the Visitor Center for the nasa Johnson Space center. As a nonprofit entity and smithsonian affiliate and the worlds First Certified Autism Center as a science center. We believe in equity, inclusion, accessibility. And we take that on as a great badge of honor that our staff has had expert training to ensure that our staff is able to work with people who have any type of learning disabilities or any type of challenges or anything like that. If you see a need we are not meeting please let us know because we always want to improve. Welcome today for our first panel discussion. [ cheers and applause ] you know, i aspen over 20 years of my life with nasa and industry. And i tell you, ive been around a lot of folks, been around the Flight Controllers and directors over th
We are honored today to have a group of engineers, heroes, i tried to get her to follow in your footsteps as quickly as i could since 1959. We will have a panel talking about lunar module lending operations today and if you want to know what that is they will tell you about it. As we go around we have the panel here jack knight to the immediate left, bob nance, bill reeves and hal loden, i will have them identify themselves briefly and say a little about what they did and then open it a little for questions and since i didnt introduce myself, my name is john charles and im a scientist here is the center, houston. I would like to turn the microphone over to mr. Knight to talk about what you did to apollo 11 and what brought you here in the first place in your recognition of that important day. Okay. I was the son of an air force family and we were in various places around the world and i went to Georgia Institute of technology and came directly here to the Space Flight Center and was hi
All didly 14 when you the miracle back in 1969. I tried to get here and follow in your footsteps as quickly as we could. We have a panel that will talk about lunar module landing operations. The panel here is jack knight, bob nance, hal loden, and bill reeves. Instead of me going on about them i will ask them to identify themselves, say a little bit about what they did and then open it for questions. My name is john charles. I am the science in fast scientist in residence at space center houston. I would like to turn the microphone over to mr. Knight. To talk about what you did here for apollo 11, what brought you here in the first place and your recollection of that important day. Jack i was the son of an air force family. We were in various bases around the world. I went to the Georgia Institute of technology and graduated in 1965. I came directly to the manned space flight center, in particular the apollo systems group. At the time i arrived, apollo had been a program in work, but w
And engineers discuss the design and development of the lunar module and how it operated during the apollo 11 moon landing. This panel was part of an event hosted by Space Center Houston to mark apollo 11s anniversary. And happy Lunar Landing day. [applause] its great to have you all here. I am the chief operating officer here at the Space Center Houston. We are a smithsonian affiliate. Worlds First Certified Autism Center as a science center. We believe very much in equity, inclusion, accessibility, and we take that honesty great badge of honor that our staff has had extra training to ensure that our staff is able to work with people who have any type of learning disability or challenge or anything like that. If you see that there is a needed that we are not meeting, please let us know because we always want to improve. Welcome today for our first panel discussion. [applause] i spent 20 years of my life nows the end of the industry. I have been around a lot of. Olks this is been a fan