[net.space] Space Day 1984 - Big Space-Related Event in Trenton NJ

mam@charm.UUCP (Matthew Marcus) (07/10/84)

[My mind is going, Dave.  I can feel it.]

		ANNOUNCEMENT:

	On July 21, the 15th anniversary of the first landing on the Moon,
there will be an all-day Space Day event at the New Jersey State Museum in 
Trenton.  There will be speakers, planetarium shows, a video room, and
movies.  The schedules will be as follows:

		Video:

9:00-10:00 25 Years in Space: A Reprise
10:00-10:35 Skylab Science Experiments
		(includes: Zero-G (1974, 15 minutes)
			   Conservation Laws in 0-G (1974, 17 minutes) )
10:35-11:00 Shuttle Spacewalk Set to Music (by E. Leeper)
11:00-1:00  L5 Video Show
		STS-1 Press Conference (17 min.)
		STS-3 Postflight Press Conference (17 min.)
		STS-8 Postflight Press Conference (15 min.)
		The Next Frontier: Intro to L5 Society (40 min.)
		NASA Report: Space Colonization (5 min.)
		NASA Report: Space Solar Power (5 min.)
		Zero Gravity Gymnastics (7 min.)
		Jupiter and Saturn Rotation Films (14 min.)
1:00-2:00   Business in Space: Free Enterprise Reaches Out
2:00-3:00   Careers in Space
		Space for Women (1981, 28 min.)
		Where Dreams Come True (1979, 28 min.)
3:00-5:00   History of the Early Apollo Program
		Apollo 8: Go for TLI (1969, 22 min.)
		Apollo 9: Three to Make Ready (1969, 17 min.)
		Apollo 10: To Sort Out the Unknowns (1969, 25 min.)
		Eagle Has Landed: The Flight of Apollo 11 (1969, 28 min.)


		Speaker's Schedule

9:00-9:30  Intro to Model Rocketry, James Newquist
9:30-10:00  Model Rocketry Demo, James Newquist
10:00-11:00 The Work of the Space Studies Institute, April Whitt,
			Executive Director, SSI, including slides and
			video tape
11:00-12:00 RCA Astro-Electronics
12:00-1:00  History of the Space Program, slides&lecture by J. Striab,
			Prof. of Physics, Villanova
1:00-2:00   The L5 Society and Mankind's Future in Space, slides&lecture
			by Chuck Divine, President, North Jersey L5
2:00-3:00   The Space Shuttle Main Engines, slides&lectures by
			J.R. Thompson, Deputy Director, Forrestal Labs,
			former Chief Engineer for Space Shuttle
3:00-4:00   Intro to Model Rocketry, James Newquist
4:00-4:30   Model Rocketry Demo, James Newquist

		Planetarium Schedule

10:00-11:00 Movies: The Sunbeam Connection, The Weather Machine, and other
		science shorts
11:00-12:00 Planetarium Show: Countdown: 25 Years in Space
12:00-1:00  Planetarium Show: Summer Stars for Tots
1:00-2:00   Planetarium Show: Countdown: 25 Years in Space
2:00-3:00   Planetarium Show: Summer Stars for Tots
3:00-3:30   Movie: TRON
3:30-4:00   Planetarium Show: Coundown: 25 Years in Space


	This event is brought to you by the North Jersey L5 Society,
makers of fine space-related events, and by the New Jersey State Museum of
Science, where the Moon can be yours for a few dollars admission.

		DIRECTIONS:

From the North:
	Route 29 South to Calhoun or Willow St. Exits
	Route 31 South to I-95 South to Exit 1 (Trenton) Route 29 S to Calhoun
		or Willow St. Exits
	Route 1 South to Market St. Exit

From Turnpike (from North):
	Get off exit 9, onto Rt. 1, follow to Market St.

From East NJ
	Rte. 33 W to Nottingham Way to Greenwood Ave around 2 adjacent
	circles to Market St.

From South NJ
	NJ Turnpike N to Ex. 7, Rte 206 N to South Broad St. to Lalor St.
	to Rte 29 N (John Fitch Pkwy)

	I-295 to Rte 130 N to Rte 206 N, coninue as above

******* Disclaimer *******
	These directions were supplied by someone else and came with a
	sketchy map which I obviously can't reproduce.  Therefore, go at
	own risk.
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