Month: July 2019

It was my great privilege to be asked to help the NASA Alumni League – Florida Chapter kick off their month-long celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11. I attended their June 18, 2019 meeting at the Debus Center at Kennedy Space Center. NASA Alumni League lunch, June 18, 2019 (Photo by Al Koller) Rather than giving a speech or showing a PowerPoint presentation, Roselle Hanson and I thought this would be an excellent opportunity to have the attendees talk about what it was like to work on the Apollo program at KSC. I polled several Facebook interest groups, “If you could ask a question to someone who worked on Apollo at KSC, what would you want to know?” I got some great questions and used those as conversation starters. The questions and answers below are transcribed directly from my recording of the event. Where I can identify the person who spoke on the recording, I’ve indicated their name. Q.  What...