HONR 269I
To the Moon and Back: The Apollo Program
Spring 2019
E1: Museum Field Trip

The professor will conduct guided tours (promptly!) at 2 PM on Sunday February 3 and again (the same tour) at 2 PM on Saturday February 9. We'll meet in front of the Lunar Module in the Hall of Flight, which is the large room on the mall side of the museum, right inside the entrance. The goal of these guided tours is to see the actual hardware that was used during the Apollo Program. We'll see parts of the an Apollo command module, service module, lunar module, and spacesuit, and one part of a Saturn V moon rocket. We'll also see some of the hardware that was developed for the Soviet Union's lunar landing program. The tour will take about an hour.

If you can't make it to either guided tour, you can take a self-guided tour on your own any time the museum is open during the first two weeks of the semester. A two-page two self-guided tour description is available. Please do try to make it to one of the guided tours if you can, though, because there's more to talk about than can fit in two pages!

The nearest metro station is L'Enfant Plaza. If you take the northernmost exit (arriving on the Green Line, walk towards the back of the train and up the escalator to find that exit) and then continue straight ahead from the top of the second escalator and take the first left (on 6th street SW), the museum will be right in front of you. Entrances are at the center of either long side of the building (the side facing the metro station, or the side facing the Mall). Additional information is available on the Museum's Web site (but be sure to go to the one on the National Mall, not the other one in Virginia!).

To demonstrate that you actually did take a tour, please upload a selfie photo of you with some Apollo artifact from the National Air and Space Museum to ELMS.