Celebrating Alan Shepard: 50 Years of American Space Travel
Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon TheaterOn Thursday, May 5, 2011, the Observatory marked the 50th anniversary of Alan Shepard's historic flight with a special public lecture.
On Thursday, May 5, 2011, the Observatory marked the 50th anniversary of Alan Shepard's historic flight with a special public lecture.
On April 19, 2011, the Observatory hosted a special public lecture to explain why shuttle launches sometimes get delayed and to preview the final flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Griffith Observatory hosted a special public lecture on April 12, 2011, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the flight of Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space.
Griffith Observatory continues its celebration of NASA’s Apollo missions to the Moon with events marking the 40th anniversary of the flight of Apollo 14 and the 50th anniversary of the flight of Ham the Chimp, the first hominid in space.
Join speakers Malcolm Hartley and Tim Larsen for an evening of discussion about the excitement of comet hunting, the mysteries of the solar system's oldest denizens, and the upcoming flyby of Comet Hartley.
Join a team of research astronomers for the latest news and discoveries on three of the hottest (and coldest) moons in our solar system: Titan, Enceladus, and the satellite we thought we knew: Earth's own moon.
Special Guest Lecture and Book Signing by Dr. Brian May and Elena Vidal, author of A Village Lost and Found
Special Guest Lecture and Book Signing by Megan Prelinger, author of Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race, 1957-1962
Griffith Observatory Continues its Celebration of NASA’s Apollo Missions to the Moon with Events Marking the
40th Anniversary of the Flight of Apollo 13
Don Lincoln is the Senior Physicist with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He is the author of the new book, The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider.