Moon Struck! Celebrating Apollo's 50th Anniversary (Live Public Talk)

Original air date: Thursday, July 11, 7pm PT
As part of the intense, decade-long effort that led to human footprints on the lunar surface, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory launched a series of robotic precursors to the Moon. It proved a formidable challenge - the first six missions failed, putting at risk the laboratory’s ambitions to explore the solar system.
Meanwhile, Caltech - which operates JPL for NASA - established a laboratory in the mid-1960s to help develop the new techniques that would be needed for analyzing lunar samples. And once the Apollo 11 Moon rocks were on the ground, the Caltech researchers raced to contribute to the first stunning scientific results NASA shared with the world.
This event will focus on understanding the supporting roles these institutions played in one of humanity's greatest achievements, and consider what might lie ahead in exploring the Moon. Take a journey back in time to learn how JPL found its way to success in the early days of the space race and how both Caltech and JPL have contributed to exploring and understanding our nearest celestial neighbor.
Host: Preston Dyches
Speaker(s): Blaine Baggett, JPL Fellow and Emmy award-winning producer; Arden Albee, Caltech Professor of Geology and Planetary Science, Emeritus; John Casani, JPL veteran engineer of the Ranger and Surveyor era

[@Peirithous]

Well done JPL! Lotsa cool knowledge from this talk👍🚀🛰

[@sergeiiurtaev4712]

Congratulations! Where I may watch a retrospective of early satellites & scientific landing devices. Exactly pictures. It's interesting how designers & engineers looking at it in 1950s - 1980s.

[@P777M33G]

They lost the most important human technology circa the 80s and it’s hard to get back still.

[@rick4electric]

I'm still waiting for anyone to go beyond the Van Allen Belts! I mean besides the Apollo Astronauts. LoL

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Happy Apollo 50 celebrate and jpl laboratory California good

[@ianthecoolguy1657]

I was inspired by the talk and the Apollo Moon missions. My profile picture is the lunar module

[@williamastro9250]

Happy Partial Lunar Eclipse Day!

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And so it was that McNamara, not succeeding in getting a crew sent to Mars, had to settle for sending a couple million men to Vietnam, and actually bringing most of them back alive.

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15:55 Oops.

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Why are you repeating videos that were just published this week?

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We never went to the moon........

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That massive rocket is an impressive achievement, but let's not pretend that this was anything but a Cold War pissing contest.

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Love how humans turn space travel into a war..

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