Who: Robert Zimmerman, an award-winning author, writes articles and books on issues of science, history, technology, and culture. His essays are published regularly in such magazines as ASTRONOMY, THE SCIENCES, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, INVENTION & TECHNOLOGY, FORTUNE, AD ASTRA, AMERICAN HISTORY, STARDATE, and many other major publications. Zimmerman will discuss the topic entitled, "'We have Capture!' The Story of Rendezvous and Docking in Space, and How What Today Seems Routine Was Once Considered Almost Unachievable." This presentation will tell the story, of how American engineers and astronauts had to solve a long list of unexpected problems in order to bring the first two spacecraft together in space. The lecture will also touch on the future, and how docking and rendezvous technologies, both manned and unmanned, are essential skills for building in orbit the first interplanetary spaceships.

When/Where: Mon, Dec 9 at 3:30 p.m. in the bldg. 8 auditorium

For more info, visit: http://ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/announce.zimmerman.html

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