Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Event

What

Neil Armstrong first placed his boot on the lunar surface 50 years ago on July 20th, 1969. Fifty years later, we are celebrating this amazing and historic accomplishment events all around the world. Here in Anchorage, the UAA Planetarium has teamed up with the Anchorage Museum, the UAA Geology Department, Solar System Ambassadors and other lunar fanatics for celebration at the UAA campus.

Activities

Hands-on activities will be going from noon to 4:00pm. Come by and make rockets, create craters on a simulated lunar surface, watch films dedicated to the Apollo missions from NASA, learn about lunar geology, get informed on past and current NASA missions from the Solar System Ambassadors, re-live the Apollo missions through virtual reality, watch free Planetarium shows, and more.

Planetarium Schedule

12:00    From Dream to Discovery: Inside NASA

12:30    Back to the Moon for Good

1:00   Dawn of the Space Age

1:30   From Dream to Discovery: Inside NASA

2:00    Back to the Moon for Good

2:30    Dawn of the Space Age

3:00    From Moon to Mars (live show presented by Omega Smith)

 

Presentation

The Unsung Heroes of the Apollo Missions

Nobody talks much about the command module pilots that stayed up in lunar orbit while the other astronauts were on the lunar surface. Learn what the command module pilots did and why the very lives of the moonwalkers depended on the command module pilots.

presented by Tom Mangelsdorf

2:00 pm