Skip to main content
close
Font size options
Increase or decrease the font size for this website by clicking on the 'A's.
Contrast options
Choose a color combination to give the most comfortable contrast.

Registration now closed

African Americans in Space

Presented by Dr. Bill Thierfelder

2024-02-07 19:00:00 2024-02-07 20:30:00 America/New_York African Americans in Space This program introduces us to some of the remarkable African Americans who’ve helped shape America’s space program and who’ve introduced millions to the wonders of the Universe. Explore From Home - Virtual AS 1

Wednesday, February 07
7:00pm - 8:30pm

Add to Calendar 2024-02-07 19:00:00 2024-02-07 20:30:00 America/New_York African Americans in Space This program introduces us to some of the remarkable African Americans who’ve helped shape America’s space program and who’ve introduced millions to the wonders of the Universe. Explore From Home - Virtual AS 1

Explore From Home

Virtual AS 1

This program introduces us to some of the remarkable African Americans who’ve helped shape America’s space program and who’ve introduced millions to the wonders of the Universe.

* Use this link to join our virtual program: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81158480701

For those who have read books like "Rise of the Rocket Girls" or seen films like "Hidden Figures," you’re well aware of the group of African-American women who helped to make the Space Race of the 1960’s and the Space Program today the success that it was and is. And if you watch science programs on television, you surely have encountered astronomers like Neil deGrasse Tyson. This PowerPoint presentation examines the lives of these trailblazers, including scientists Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan as well as astronauts Mae Jemison and Ronald McNair. Who are these adventurous women and women--and how did some of them help launch NASA into the Civil Rights revolution and into our burgeoning era of Lunar and Martian exploration?

At the conclusion of the program please feel free to take a brief online survey here:
https://www.projectoutcome.org/responses/72165

* Virtual programs work best with the current version of the browsers listed below:

AGE GROUP: | Adult |

EVENT TYPE: | Virtual | Lecture | History |

TAGS: | Black History Month | #BlackHistoryMonth |

Explore From Home


Hours
Skip Opening Hours widget
Mon, Mar 23 Closed
Tue, Mar 24 Closed
Wed, Mar 25 Closed
Thu, Mar 26 Closed
Fri, Mar 27 Closed
Sat, Mar 28 Closed
Sun, Mar 29 Closed

About the branch