Moon Society Nashville Outpost at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory’s Telescope Night 11/8

Hello,

I presented my “Apollo to Artemis and Beyond” exhibit at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory’s Telescope Night on Friday 11/8 from 8:30-10:30. 

I talked with many of their 140 guests 

using spacecraft models of the Apollo Saturn V, LM, STS Space Shuttle, International Space Station with docked Dragon, Soyuz & Progress and Artemis’s SLS, Orion, Lunar Gateway, and SpaceX and Blue Origin’s Human Landing Systems. Commercial space models shown were Blue Origin’s New Shepard, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 with Crew Dragon, Falcon Heavy and Starship, Boeing’s Starliner on ULA Atlas V, and Sierra Nevada’s Dreamchaser.  Photo below. 

I discussed the Artemis 1 and 2 Orion missions, Artemis 3 and 4 SpaceX crew landing missions and Artemis 5 and 6 Blue Origin’s crew landing missions.  

I displayed Mars rover Perseverance  and Ingenuity and a Mars sample return tube.  

The telescope’s showed views of the Moon, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter with an Io and Io shadow transit.  

The program was well received. We plan to go back for their 2025 programs.