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Meet an Apollo Rocket Scientist

This multi-media presentation is aimed at kids and the kid in all of us. Each child participating will receive a signed Apollo Lunar Module Certificate of Participation.

Teaneck resident, Ray Arons was on the design and testing team of the rocket engines for the lunar landing module used in NASA’s Apollo missions. As a former Grumman Aircraft propulsion engineer, he was among the team chosen by NASA in 1963 to build and test the lunar module rocket engines for
America’s space program. He was there at the birth of travel into space.

Through his first hand knowledge of living, working in Bethpage, Long Island, N.Y., Tullahoma. Tennessee, Houston, Texas and the White Sands, New Mexico NASA Test Site, Dr. Arons shares the stories, the science, the human drama, and the excitement of space technology.

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