Inclusion and take that on as a special badge of honor that our staff has had special training to work with people with any type of learning disabilities, challenges or anything like that. If you see theres a need were not meeting, please let us know, because we always want to improve. Welcome today for our first panel discussion. [ cheers and applause ] i spent over 20 years of my life with nasa and industry, and ill tell you, ive been around a lot of folks, been around Flight Controllers, directors over the last four years that ive been here. Have just been a fantastic experience for me. Many of these gentlemen, weve been involved with either planning discussions like this, or have been a part of the Mission Control that has been restored as a National Historic landmark where they actually had the missions up through shuttle but also included the Lunar Landing for apollo landing and other great space flights. If you have not gotten your ticket for that, hopefully you will today. They
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
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
There he much in equity inclusion, accessibility, and we take that on as a great badge of honor to establish 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. If you see there is a need we are not meeting, let us know because we always want to improve. Welcome today to our first panel discussion. [applause] i spent over 20 years of my industry,nasa and the and i tell you, ive been around a lot of folks, and around Flight Controllers and directors over the last 40 years that ive this has been a fantastic experience for me. Gentlemen, theyre planning discussions like this or have been a part of the Mission Control that have been restored as a National Historic landmark where they actually have the missions. Through shuttle, but also included the Lunar Landing for apollo 11 and many other great spaceflights. If you have not gotten your tickets for that, hopefully you will today. They will go quick and