Apollo 11 Splashdown/Space Exploration Event

Please join the USS Hornet Museum as we host our annual Apollo 11 Splashdown/Space Exploration Day on July 23rd from 10 am to 5 pm. We have a very exciting program for the whole family and hope you can make it this year! We will have a presentation from NASA, a panel on Space Exploration and many other fun activities for everyone.  
 

Special Guests include: 

• Sarah Cruddas. Sarah is a space journalist, international TV host and award winning author.
• James Anderson. James Anderson is a NASA historian based at Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. 
• Seth Shostak Seth Shostak is Senior Astronomer and Institute Fellow at the SETI Institute. 
• Amaresh Kollipara As the Chief Revenue Officer of OffWorld, Amaresh is creating markets for an autonomous robotic workforce starting with large-scale deployments around the world, with eventual applications in space. 
• He currently serves on the boards of the SETI Institute and the Space Frontier Foundation. 
• Daniel Wheeler Bursch (born July 25, 1957 is a former NASA astronaut, and Captain of the United States Navy. He had four spaceflights, the first three of which were Space Shuttle missions lasting 10 to 11 days each. 
• Clarence (Clancy) Hatleberg attended Dartmouth College on an NROTC scholarship. He graduated in June 1965 with a B.A. degree and was commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Navy. In mid-May 1969, while training to recover Apollo 10, Lieutenant Hatleberg was selected to be the officer in charge and decontamination swimmer for the recovery of Apollo 11, mankind’s first landing on the moon. 
• Robert Fish graduated from high school in Orlando, FL in 1966 and attended the University of Virginia on a Naval ROTC scholarship.  In 2000, Bob joined the Board of Trustees of the USS Hornet Sea, Air and Space Museum. In 2019 Bob was elected Trustee Emeritus. 
• Bill Miklos, Hornet Docent, Air Force veteran, longtime Lockheed employee and Space expert, will be giving his presentation “An engineering View of the Apollo 11 Mission, Reentry, Splashdown , Recovery and Contamination Control” in the Wardroom a few times during the day. Schedule will be posted.
   

By popular demand we will also have our friends from the local Star Wars costume clubs, the Rebel Legion-Endor Base, 501st Legion-Golden Gate Garrison, the Wolves of Mandalore and the Droids on board for you to see and take pictures with.  
 

We will have a Model Rocket display and a special exhibit: A TRAVELING SPACE EXHIBIT (Educating Adults and Children about Space Exploration through the use of Space Artifacts, Models and Lego.) 

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