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Joseph Vick, the manager of museum education at the US Space & Rocket Center, discusses the Mobile Quarantine Facility used by Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad, Al Bean and Dick Gordon after their mission to the Moon with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Huntsville, Ala. The three spent two weeks in the modified Airstream trailer to ensure that potential diseases from the lunar surface didn’t contaminate planet Earth. Apollo missions 11, 12 and 14 astronauts that made it to the Moon used the mobile facilities immediately after landing — entering the trailer after splashdown aboard USS Hornet through return to the United States — until scientists concluded that the precaution was unnecessary.

Apollo 50
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1st Lt. Tara Sweeney, USAF (Ret.), Vice President at U.S. Space & Rocket Center, celebrates the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11th on July 20th, 1969, the first mission to land humans on the moon. She discusses Space Camp’s mission, their forty to fifty-thousand student – child and adult – attendance, the incredible things they learn and achieve and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

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Capt. Deborah Barnhart, PhD, US Navy Ret., the CEO of the US Space & Rocket Center, discusses the mission of one of the world’s leading space museums, key elements from its collection in Huntsville, Ala., the legacy of its founder, legendary rocket engineer Werner von Braun, and commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

GFS 2019
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Lt. Gen. Bill Phillips, US Army Ret., the vice president for Army programs at Boeing Defense, Space and Security, discusses the giant’s US Army programs, the services decision to cut funding to the Block II version of the venerable heavy-life CH-47 Chinook helicopter, working with the new Futures Command and his advice to program managers with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted at the Association of the United States Army’s recent Global Force Symposium and Exhibition in Huntsville, Ala., where our coverage was sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.