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Symposium Attendees Can Learn About Space Law
Attendees can enhance their Strategic Space Symposium experience by taking advantage of a free seminar on space law, hosted by the University of Nebraska Space and Telecom Program, with support from the Space Foundation. The third annual Space Law Seminar will be held Nov. 2 from 2:45-5:15 p.m. at the Omaha Hilton, directly across from the Qwest Center…
Apollo 11 Recollections #4
A Special Treat Years Later at the National Space Symposium I was a new Coast Guard ensign on liberty from my ship. We watched TV in my parents’ living room. My fiancée and I lounged on pillows on the floor, with my father and sisters to the left on the couch, mother behind in her…
Apollo 11 Recollections #5
I Understood it was Something Important I was eight. At home. The TV was black and white (and you actually had to get off the couch to change the channel). The memory is clear in my mind so I guess I understood it was something important, but it probably wasn’t until a few years later…
Apollo 11 Recollections #6
Expected with Certainty, and Welcomed with Eager Anticipation In the summer of 1969, the summer I turned 18, I shared with millions of people the experience of watching a live transmission of a human being walking on the moon. A few days before that I shared an equally momentous experience with a much smaller percentage…
Apollo 11 Recollections #7
Year of Moonmen and Mets! Growing up, I went to camp every year in the Pocono Mountains during July. No television, just fresh air and swimming and lots of activities. In 1969, I was 13, and on July 20 of that year, the camp took the extraordinary measure of setting up a black and white…
Apollo 11 Recollections #8
You Could Feel the Electricity I was sitting in the Butternut Room which was a fancy library with floor-to-ceiling book shelves and lots of wood everywhere at Allerton House in Monticello, Ill. I was a sophomore in college (University of Illinois) and that summer I was fortunate enough to be a live-in camp counselor at…
Apollo 11 Recollections #9
Occupied with Something More Important I was in the hospital having my fifth child, a boy we named Sam. After I gave birth, the doctor came in to see me. He exclaimed, “Did you see that! The first landing on the moon?” “No,” I said. “And where were you when I was giving birth?” “Oh!…
Apollo 11 Recollections #10
The Most Noble Adventure in the Past 200 Years I was 25 when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on the lunar surface on 20 July, 1969. Michael Collins was orbiting the moon in the primary Apollo spaceship. I remember listening to the launch of John Glenn, the first American to enter earth orbit.…
Apollo 11 Stories: Hope, Inspiration, Awe and Pride
During July, the Space Foundation asked our Space Watch readers, staff members, friends, and colleagues to tell us where they were on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the Moon (Crewmate Michael Collins piloted the Command Module during the historic mission). We were overwhelmed…
Apollo 11 Recollections #1
Inspiration Didn’t Require Observation Well at that time, I wasn’t born yet, but I was inspired when I first heard it when I was nine years old. My parents were in the Philippines when that special amazing event happened. – Christopher Adan G.Calubaquib, Jr. Will Always Remember Parents’ Excitement All the neighbor kids were outside…