Mtg & Talk

We are holding a VIRTUAL "Macomb" meeting this month due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

We do a bit of club business early on, then have a major presentation usually put together by one of our members.

Panel Discussion:
My memories of the Space Race
Hosted by Bob Trembley
Join us as we recall the heady times of the Space Race. Triggered by the launch of Sputnik, propelled by the rocket systems developed for ICBMs, the United States and the Soviet Union embarked on a space race that culminated in the US landing on the Moon. Some of our members were around during those years and are on hand to share their experience and memories.
Panelists:
Jim Shedlowsky
Jim was a member of the student chapter of the American Rocket Society at the University of Michigan, and they tried, unsuccessfully, to get Von Braun to visit us in Ann Arbor. Several of the original Astronauts were classmates of his at the U of M, including Ed White, who was Jim’s Lab Partner in an Instrumentation Engineering course.
Bob Berta
A member of WAS since 2004 has served as Secretary, 2nd VP, President, and Outreach Chair. He is also a member of the Oakland Astronomy Club where he served as VP for several years, a member of the 7 Ponds Astronomy Club, and San Francisco Amateur Astronomers in California. Bob is both a Michigan Representative for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Night Sky Network, as well as a Solar System Ambassador for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
Ken Bertin
Ken Bertin is a lifetime hobbyist astronomer, past President and VEEP of WAS, observed 10 Total Solar Eclipses, 4 Annular eclipses, 6 Transits of Mercury, 2 transits of Venus, and 15 Lunar eclipses. He does our presentations of historical figures in astronomy and currently presenting online to schools and other organizations.

After each WAS Macomb meeting, some club members get together to continue to the discussion in a more free-form way at the National Coney Island on Van Dyke just north of 12 Mile. This is an opportunity to further discuss astronomy in an informal environment for about an hour or so. All members and guests are invited to join us there.

If you would like to present a short talk (5-15 minutes) or a long talk (40-60 minutes) at a future meeting, please email Bob Trembley at firstvp@warrenastro.org.

The views expressed in presentations are those of the speakers and do not necessarily represent, and should not be attributed to, the Warren Astronomical Society.