In the spring of 1961, President Kennedy announced that America would send astronauts to the moon and return them safely to earth.

A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Moon

This lecture is better titled a history of the Apollo program. Dr. Battin presented this same material to our local AIAA in March 1991 as part of a non-technical dinner meeting. This particular lecture further removes any technical portions by obscuring key slides as copyright protected. But, this is a very good history of the Apollo program from Dr. Battin, who participated, and provided guidance and control expertise to the Apollo program.

Some Funny Things Happened on the Way to the Moon

The description of this lecture does not match the content at all.  Instead, this is an hour and twenty minutes of an 80 year old engineer with horrendous presentation skills bragging about little things he did 50 years ago.  He has no up to date credibility (was not aware of the Constellation program) and rambles on instead of giving interesting facts, theories in a concise 25 minutes.  
If you think there might be funny or humorous parts in this presentation given the title, you&#39;d be wrong again.  Not funny, no interesting stories regarding going to the moon which the title implies.  Principles of astrophysics are not addressed either as the description says.

Great topic, terrible presentation

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