BRANCH LECTURE

The Eagle has landed: 50 years since Apollo 11

Howard Nye BSc, FRaeS, MInstP RAES PRESIDENT-ELECT 2019-2020 FORMER EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY EXECUTIVE

AMRC KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER CENTRE / 29 OCTOBER 2019

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LECTURE PROGRAMME

50 years ago, at 20:17 UTC on the 20th July 1969, NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped down from Lunar lander “Eagle” onto the surface of the Moon. He was joined 19 minutes later by NASA astronaut and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin. Meanwhile, their colleague, Michael Collins, remained alone in lunar orbit as pilot of command module “Columbia”, the taxi waiting to take them back home.

NASA had fulfilled the goal of “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth before the end of the decade”.

NASA is now preparing for the Artemis programme to return humans, in particular women, to the moon by 2024.

This is the story of how NASA stepped up to the enormous challenges it was exposed to and what is next in the history of human space flight.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Howard Nye began his space career in 1973, star9ng at the Bri9sh Aircra< Corpora9on (BAC), before moving to Vega-Ltd in 1980 and the European Space Agency (ESA) in 1983.

At BAC, Howard worked on the the Hubble Space Telescope Solar Array, and become head of the BAe-Bristol solar array group in 1978. At Vega-Ltd he helped to prepare ESA Spacelab I opera9ons at ESA-ESOC in Germany, and astronaut training at NASA-MSFC in Huntsville, Alabama, later moving to NASA-Johnson in Houston for the Spacelab 1 mission carried alo< by Space ShuUle Columbia.

At the ESA, Howard has been in senior roles in the delivery of the ESA-GioUo mission, Hipparcos prepara9ons and the XMM-Newton mission. He led the ESA coopera9on that led to an agreement that assigned responsibili9es for flight opera9on of the EU Galileo satellites. From 2004, all five ESA establishments across Europe were placed under his responsibility and from 2006, he was addi9onally responsible for ESA-wide corporate informa9cs. Since 2015, he offers aerospace consul9ng.

An ac9ve Fellow of the Royal Aeronau9cal Society, Howard is Chair of the Space Specialists Group, Vice-President of the Paris Branch and President-Elect of the RAeS for 2019-20.

VENUE: AMRC Knowledge Transfer Centre, Brunel Way, Rotherham S60 5WG

PROGRAMME: 18:30 - Registration 19:00 - Lecture start 20:00 - End

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