Artemis & Apollo: From One Small Step to the Next Giant Leap (Maryland)

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This course is a ten week, in depth exploration of humanity’s two great eras of lunar ambitions—exploration and exploitation.Ten sessions examine Apollo and Artemis not as isolated projects but as bookends of a 60 year narrative about exploration, innovation, and national purpose. Sessions dive into the scientific and operational evolution between the two eras by comparing Apollo’s equatorial landing sites and Artemis’s focus on the lunar south pole.Technical sessions explore the vehicles and systems that define each program, contrasting the Saturn V with the Space Launch System, the Apollo Command Module with Orion, and the Lunar Module with modern commercial landers such as SpaceX’s Starship HLS and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon. By the end of the ten sessions attendees will have gained a comprehensive, comparative understanding of how Apollo made the Moon reachable and how Artemis aims to make it livable.

Please note: Must have an active OLLI membership to enroll in this course.

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