Virtual program on space shuttle to be held Monday, June 7
WAPAKONETA First on the Moon, Inc., and the Auglaize County Historical Society will co-host “My Work on the Space Shuttle Program: A Short Summary” with Ken Elchert as a Facebook Live event at 7 p.m. Monday, June 7. The program is free and open to the public and is accessible through the Facebook page of either organization.
Elchert grew up in Wapakoneta and attended St. JosephElementary and High School. He then attended St. Joseph College in Rensselaer, Indiana, and The Ohio State University, Columbus, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering. He then worked for Rockwell International and Boeing in California on space and missile defense projects. Elchert still lives in California as a retired aerospace engineer.
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Logan family Mark, Charlie (centre) and Stacey Eldred take a sneak peek at the featured book for this year’s Simultaneous Storytime.
Patrons at Logan City Council Libraries will be treated to an out-of-this-world
experience during the 2021 National Simultaneous Storytime.
NASA astronaut Dr Shannon Walker will present this year’s featured book Give me some space by author and illustrator Philip Bunting from the International Space Station on Wednesday, May 19.
The story, about a young girl’s dreams of life in space and completing her mission, will be read simultaneously to more than one million children across Australia and New Zealand.