Fifty years ago this week, the Apollo Lunar Module, “The Eagle,” landed on the moon. Much of the technology that went into getting a human on the moon was developed on Long Island. We look into the local connection to the Apollo 11 mission to the moon with guests:
- Bill Finch, executive director, Discovery Museum
- J. Bret Bennington, Ph.D., professor of geology, environment and sustainability, Hofstra University
- Ed Whitman, engineer for communications between Lunar Excursion and Command Services Modules
- Roy LeCann, former Grumman vice president; director, Lunar Module Data Reduction System
- Jan Lawrence Junglut, engineer, Apollo Communications Subsystem
- Ed O'Connor, engineer, Hamilton Standard; volunteer, Connecticut Science Center
- Joshua Stoff, curator, Cradle of Aviation Museum and Education Center