Disney in Space: Walt Disney and the Future of Space Travel in the 1950s
Posted by Brent Bernasconi in Calendar on August 24, 2009
2:00 pm
Location:
Heritage Park Regional Library
14361 Yale Avenue, Irvine, CA
Back by popular demand, the Orange County Space Society member John Sisson will be giving an updated version of his program which focuses on how Walt Disney helped to ignite the flame of imagination and to show how the idea of going into space, to the Moon, and even to Mars, were not things of a far off future, but something that could be accomplished in our lifetimes. It is visionaries such as Disney that we could use again today to do what he did 50 and 60 years ago. John will have video and lots of display materials that should be very entertaining and enlightening. It should be a great program to bring everyone in the family to.
For More information and to RSVP click here or call (949) 936-4040.
Join us for the September general meeting of the San Diego Space Society. Dr. David Schrunk of the San Diego Moon Society will give a lecture on the Planet Moon Project, which portrays a vision to transform the Moon into an inhabited sister planet of the Earth in the 21st century.
Join the San Diego Air & Space Museum and the USS Midway for a special, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet and honor our country’s space legends — the astronauts of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. There is no other, or finer team of men who represented our nation during a time of national challenge… the Cold War. Their accomplishment was in direct response to President John F. Kennedy’s May 25, 1961 challenge to reach the moon within the decade. They succeeded against all odds and in 2009 alone we celebrate the anniversary of Apollo 9, 10, 11 and 12. But it was the entire body of work, those three primary space programs, which accomplished so much and that we honor.
