Preparation For The Next Lunar Landing Leaps Across The Generation Gap

Conference Tuesday - "Go for Lunar Landing - From Touchdown to Teerminal Descent" (With great header graphic featuring Surveyor Crater Landing site of Apollo 12)

Highlighting the Arizona State University School for Earth and Space Exploration

Moon Daily
It was July 20, 1969 when the first human walked upon the surface of the moon. The world has changed drastically since that memorable day, but even back then the Apollo era scientists, engineers and astronauts had the right stuff. They had what it took to get to the moon. And now, nearly 40 years later, we call on them again to share their wisdom, experience and opinion as we prepare to return to the moon.

Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) in partnership with University of Arizona is organizing the conference "Go for Lunar Landing: From Touchdown to Terminal Descent" to be held on March 4th and 5th, 2008 at the Fiesta Inn Resort in Tempe, Arizona.

The aim of the conference is to leverage the experiences and lessons learned from the six Apollo lunar landings and to provide a forum for direct communication between the Apollo teams and today's engineers and scientists while also opening the door to compare past and current technologies. Designed to facilitate discussion, the conference is broken up into six different panels, with the first day's panel featuring Apollo astronauts Harrison Schmidt and Dick Gordon.

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