Col. Al Worden, USAF Ret., the Apollo 15 command module pilot and Apollo 12 backup crew, discusses the new Astronaut Al Worden Endeavour Scholarship and the Apollo 12 mission to the Moon in November 1969 with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Dubai Air Show 2019. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS. Col. Worden, 88, passed away on March 18, 2020, after a brief illness.
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.
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.
Joseph Vick, the manager of museum education at the US Space & Rocket Center, discusses the importance of Germany’s V-2 missile in advancing American rocketry with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Huntsville, Ala.
Eric Fanning, President and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association, discuss the key takeaways from the 2019 Paris airshow, defense and aerospace spending trends, the impact of mergers and acquisition’s on his membership base, and the international rocketry competition at Le Bourget on the 50th anniversary year of the Apollo 11 moon landing with Defense and or Space report Editor Vago Muradian. Our coverage of the 2019 Paris airshow is sponsored by Belle and Leonardo DRS