Moon Day

Moon Day 2011

Moon Day was a lot of fun for everyone! Kids got our brand new bags with NSSNT logo and lots of info. We had a huge booth with tons of handouts and info, and several NSSNT members conducted presentations in the auditorium.

Here are a few images from the event. See our Flickr account for even more!

Alley speaks on "The Science in Science Fiction"

Apollo space capsule, just a little used

Texas Astronomical Society booth with the big Celestron telescope Alley drools over

Alley helps out at the NSSNT display table

Saturday, July 16, 2011, is our annual MOON DAY event! Held as always at the fabulous Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas, Texas, from 10 am to 5 pm.

Join us for a day full of unique displays, interesting programs, and great family activities!

The annual MOON DAY is a celebration of space exploration, celebrating the 42nd anniversary of the first moon landing, with exhibits from not just NSSNT, but the Dallas Mars Society, the University of North Texas, the Moon Society, UTA Planetarium, the Civil Air Patrol,the Fort Worth Astronomical Society, the UT Dallas Center for Space Sciences and more.

In the kids classroom, local SSA and CAP and NSS of NT member Cynthia Whisennand will give her Toys in Space talk again, and Brookhaven College Astronomy & Physics Lab is looking again into having a Moon rocks class using the lucite disks from JSC.

Alan Chan, who most recently has been working on the Green Lantern movie, has given NSSNT President Ken Murphy permission to screen the movie Postcards from the Future.

Speakers include Starman Ron DiIulio who is a Solar System Ambassador (SSA), Spaceminers.org, Bob Finkelman, Dr. James Carter, Ken Ruffian, Pat Hauldren, Jason Major, and many others.

And more!

• FREE “Lunar Sample Bags” for the first 200 children and DOOR PRIZES throughout the day
• See space-related displays from a dozen exhibitors, and a new display of 60 years of space memorabilia
• Check the progress of the Space Shuttle mission, and learn what’s next in space flight
• Find out what we learned from the Moon rocks with UT Dallas’s lunar sample analyst Bob Finkleman
• View the Sun safely with special telescopes from the Fort Worth Astronomical Society
• Get a close-up view of some real Moon rocks with Chaz Hafey of Brookhaven College
• Go inside the Museum of Science and Nature’s traveling inflatable planetarium
• Get the lowdown on Moon dirt from Dr. James Carter of UT Dallas–
• Build a comet with Solar System Ambassador J. David Hale
• Learn how Earth toys work in the microgravity of space

…and view a display of 200 space-themed comic book covers from 1950 to the present WITH COMICS IN SPACE!

Schedule of Speakers:

11:00am – Bob Finkelman, UTDallas lunar sample analyst

lunchtime movie: Postcards from the Future

1pm – Dr. James Carter, UTDallas

2pm – Ken Ruffin
3pm – Pat Hauldren
4pm – Jason Major

Join us for a day full of unique displays, interesting programs, and great family activities! See you Saturday!

2010:

The Frontiers of Flight Museum hosted their annual Moon Day event on July 18, 2010. Members of NSSNT attended to provide information about space, the National Space Society, and sell raffle tickets with the proceeds going to our annual Space Science Award to one recipient at the Science Fair in Dallas. Here’s our second raffle winner with NSSNT member Grace.