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- | Spring | + | Fall 2019 Meeting - Friday, October 18, 2019, from 10 am to 2 pm[[ https://www.gatewayct.edu/| Gateway CC]] |
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- | Bill Weppner’s reminiscences take us back to the 1960s when a “perfect storm” | + | |
- | driven by international politics, a national commitment by a President, and a | + | |
- | Congress willing to spend a whole lot of cash, enabled a lot of really smart people | + | |
- | with a lot of chutzpah and a lot of luck to accomplish the seemingly impossible - | + | |
- | the Apollo Program. Bill served as a flight controller at the Manned Spacecraft | + | |
- | Center in Houston, TX, during the Apollo Missions 7 and 13. He’ll explain why | + | |
- | Apollo 8 was his favorite mission. | + | |
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- | You’ll learn how we traveled all the way to the moon, only to discover the earth; | + | |
- | how the Apollo 11 computer said, “Uh! Oh!, but GUIDO said, “GO!”; how the | + | |
- | command, “SCE to AUX”, saved Apollo 12; whether we could’ve reached the | + | |
- | moon with today’s smart phone; how, in order to reach the moon, we needed to | + | |
- | come up with, “ . . . the most powerful machine ever devised” - the Saturn V. | + | |
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- | Ponder with Bill whether we’ll see such accomplishments again in our life times. | + | |
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