Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Returning to the Moon: NASA’s Artemis Project
Speaker
Professor Neil Farber
Coordinator
Steve Clarey
With the highly successful mission of Artemis II, NASA is looking to return to the Moon. But NASA faces many challenges in going back to the Moon now. This lecture focuses on the future Artemis missions, and the proposed means of returning. It also explains why it poses more problems now than those encountered by the missions of the Apollo program.
Speaker Bio
Presenter: Neil Farber is a retired internal-medicine specialist from UCSD Health. He retired from practicing medicine in 2019, at which time he joined the San Diego Air and Space Museum as a docent. He has had an interest in space since childhood, when he watched the first astronauts orbit the earth. He became a NASA Solar Systems Ambassador in September 2022, lecturing at the museum, in local communities and schools and creating YouTube videos on a wide variety of space topics. Farber has an MD from the University of Pennsylvania Perlman School of Medicine.
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