Seated from right to left in the video: Jim Lovell, Neil Armstrong &
Gene Cernan. Seated on the far left is David Hartman who was a popular
TV host during the Apollo mission era.
On January 18, 2017, we honored Gemini and Apollo astronaut Captain
Eugene Cernan at the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. Kennedy Space Center
Director Robert Cabana and space shuttle astronaut Jon McBride were on
hand to speak about Gene's legacy as the last man on the moon.
As Commander of Apollo 17 in December 1972, the final Apollo lunar landing. On Apollo 17, Cernan became the eleventh person, and most recent man, to walk on the Moon
Planets orbiting other stars, or exoplanets, have become an important
field of astronomical study over the past two and a half decades. Recent
findings from NASA's Kepler mission suggest that nearly every star you
see in the night sky probably has exoplanets orbiting it. The number of
confirmed exoplanets is now a few thousand. This talk will present a
brief history of exoplanet discoveries, the story of the “super-Saturn”
extrasolar ring system, and summarize NASA’s ongoing future plans to
discover and characterize “strange new worlds.”
Speaker: Eric Mamajek, Deputy Program Chief Scientist, NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program, JPL
Launched on April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has provided more
than a million observations, advancing studies of the solar system,
nebulae, exoplanets, stars, black holes, galaxies, dark matter, and dark
energy. The culmination of decades of human ingenuity, the Hubble Space
Telescope remains at peak performance and continues humanity's quest
for knowledge.