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To the Moon and Back

Name: To the Moon and Back
Start: 2019-08-31T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2019-08-31T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Missouri City Branch Library

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Mr. Cooper will share his experiences creating the technology that helped launch Apollo 11 in 1969, and the efforts that his team went through to successfully bring the Apollo 13 crew home safely in 1970. Cooper will also discuss the history of U.S. rockets, and his role in designing the Saturn V ascent guidance and trans-lunar targeting equations that would help make space travel possible.

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To the Moon and Back

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