NASA ARC Internal Memo: First Footsteps Celebration
Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2007
To: (Recipient list suppressed)
From: Centerwide Announcement
Subject: Message from the Center Director – First Footsteps Celebration
Message from the Center Director
First Footsteps Celebration
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon and left the first human footsteps on another celestial body. In honor of these historic first footsteps, NASA is instituting an annual ‘First Footsteps’ celebration. At Ames, we will mark the occasion with two events * a ‘Live from Haughton Crater’ video conference from 9:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. in the NASA Exploration Center, and a sneak preview of the documentary film ‘In the Shadow of the Moon’ at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. in the N-201 Auditorium. You will find more details on each event below. I hope you can find time to celebrate this great achievement.
Live from Haughton Crater. Ames will host a live videoconference with a panel of NASA researchers currently working in Haughton Crater, Devon Island, Canada. The two-way videoconference will take place at the NASA Ames Exploration Center from 9:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. on Friday, July 20. Employees and their guests will have an opportunity to ask questions of: Pete Worden, NASA Ames Center Director, regarding lunar exploration; Chris McKay, Space Science Division, NASA Ames, regarding the value of analog sites; Matt Deans, Intelligent Robotics Group, NASA Ames, regarding the Ames K10 robot site survey; and Pascal Lee of the SETI Institute regarding the ‘stranded astronaut’ EVA walk-back experiment. You can find more information about the K10 rover activities, including a team blog, at http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/projects/haughton_field/.
‘In the Shadow of the Moon’ film preview. Ames employees are invited to attend a special sneak preview of the Sundance Film Festival award-winning film, ‘In the Shadow of the Moon’ – a documentary about the achievements of the Apollo program. The film combines first-hand testimony from the surviving Apollo astronauts interwoven with visually stunning archival material which has been re-mastered from the original NASA film footage – much of it never used before. Screenings of the 95-minute film will be held at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. in the N-201 auditorium. Seating is on a first come, first served basis.
S. Pete Worden
Center Director