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Celebrate Long Island’s Role in the Success of the Apoll o Program

\n\nOn July 20\, 1969\, 600 million people around the world jointly watched Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin take their first steps on t he moon. It was the greatest human and technological achievement of our ti me. And the spaceship that put man on the moon was built by Long Islanders . From 1961 to 1972\, Long Island’s Grumman Engineers\, designed\, assembl ed and tested the Grumman Lunar Module that in total successfully landed 1 2 men on the moon. \n\n'Nobody at Grumman who worked on the LM will ever f orget it… we all knew that we were part of a majestic endeavor\, that we w ere making history happen.' \n- Thomas J. Kelly (Father of the Lunar Modul e). \n\nFifty years later\, we are joining together again to celebrate\, a cknowledge and reflect on this historic event and the role that Long Islan ders played in the success of the program and the universal feelings of pr ide\, accomplishment\, hope\, and optimism that the moon landing generated around the world.\n\nJoin us for this once in a lifetime experience.\n\n> Cocktails in the Galleries\n> Elegant Dinner and Program\n> Apollo Astron aut Tribute\n> Space Memorabilia Auction\n> Scheduled Guests:\n - Walt Cun ningham\, Apollo 7\n - Rusty Schweickart\, Apollo 9\n - Fred Haise\, Apoll o 13\n - Charlie Duke\, Apollo 16\n - Harrison Schmitt\, Apollo 17\n - Ger ry Griffin\, Apollo Flight Director\n - Milt Windler\, Apollo Flight Direc tor\n\nPlus other invited Astronauts and Flight Directors\n\nTickets: $275 per person\n\nPlease call Reservations at 516-572-4066 (Monday-Friday\ , 10:00 am-4:00 pm) for tickets.\n\nDiscounted tickets available for G rumman Retirees and Museum Members. \n\nProceeds to Benefit Museum Educati on and Preservation Programs.\n\n X-WR-RELCALID:237104585cd04da712aaca20dc0b1b32 X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20191103T020000 RDATE:20201101T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20200308T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5357cc9f-96a5-401d-9906-1f49550c9ed3 DTSTAMP:20260607T021409Z DESCRIPTION:\n

Celebrate Long Island’s Role in the Success of the Apollo Program

\n\nOn July 20\, 1969\, 600 million people around the world j ointly watched Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin take their first steps on th e moon. It was the greatest human and technological achievement of our tim e. And the spaceship that put man on the moon was built by Long Islanders. From 1961 to 1972\, Long Island’s Grumman Engineers\, designed\, assemble d and tested the Grumman Lunar Module that in total successfully landed 12 men on the moon. \n\n'Nobody at Grumman who worked on the LM will ever fo rget it… we all knew that we were part of a majestic endeavor\, that we we re making history happen.' \n- Thomas J. Kelly (Father of the Lunar Module ). \n\nFifty years later\, we are joining together again to celebrate\, ac knowledge and reflect on this historic event and the role that Long Island ers played in the success of the program and the universal feelings of pri de\, accomplishment\, hope\, and optimism that the moon landing generated around the world.\n\nJoin us for this once in a lifetime experience.\n\n> Cocktails in the Galleries\n> Elegant Dinner and Program\n> Apollo Astrona ut Tribute\n> Space Memorabilia Auction\n> Scheduled Guests:\n - Walt Cunn ingham\, Apollo 7\n - Rusty Schweickart\, Apollo 9\n - Fred Haise\, Apollo 13\n - Charlie Duke\, Apollo 16\n - Harrison Schmitt\, Apollo 17\n - Gerr y Griffin\, Apollo Flight Director\n - Milt Windler\, Apollo Flight Direct or\n\nPlus other invited Astronauts and Flight Directors\n\nTickets: $275 per person\n\nPlease call Reservations at 516-572-4066 (Monday-Friday\, 10:00 am-4:00 pm) for tickets.\n\nDiscounted tickets available for Gr umman Retirees and Museum Members. \n\nProceeds to Benefit Museum Educatio n and Preservation Programs.\n\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190606T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190606T180000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Apollo at 50 Anniversary Dinner END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR