Tag Archives: apollo

Navigating to the Moon: a View from the Apollo Guidance Computer – Jan. 12

Posted on December 30, 2015 by ST Editors

by Ira Polans, Program Chair The January AAAP meeting will be held on the 12th at 7:30 PM in Peyton Hall on the Princeton University campus. The talk will be by Frank O’Brien, an expert in spaceflight history, and is … Continue reading →

Posted in December 2015, Sidereal Times | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Snippets

Posted on January 6, 2013 by ST Editors

compiled by Michael Wright, Secretary Apollo 17 Celebration Moon Zoo (http://www.moonzoo.org) is celebrating humanity’s final trip to the Moon, Apollo17. They are showing images of the Apollo 17 landing site, taken by NASA’s amazing Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) in which the … Continue reading →

Posted in January 2013, Sidereal Times | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Space Capsule on Display

Posted on September 5, 2011 by ST Editors

by Michael Wright Local space enthusiasts have an opportunity to see and touch the capsule that returned entrepreneur and space tourist, Greg Olson, to Earth after his 2005, 8-day stay at the International Space Station. The three-man craft is on … Continue reading →

Posted in September 2011, Sidereal Times | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment