History Day 2000

I had the distinct privilege of being the Keynote Speaker for History Day on March 18th, 2000. I have a powerpoint presentation on some selected moments in the history of human Spaceflight (focusing on the Moon and Mars). You can download the presentation and movie files below (but they are large!) :

• Powerpoint presentation (860K) [This can be viewed without the movies, as is.]

[If you can't see a Powerpoint 97 file - go to this link - it contains screenshots of all the Powerpoint screens.]

• Mars rover movie (AVI) (2 Meg)
• Shuttle Launch movie (MPG) (881 K)
• Kennedy's Apollo speech (MPG) (1.33 Meg)
• Neil Armstrong on the Moon ("One small step ..") (AVI) (1.8 Meg)

Here are some other terrific web sites you should look at for information on Human Space Exploration:

• http://www.nasa.gov Nasa's main web page
• http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Jet Propulsion Laboratory's main page
• http://spacelink.nasa.gov Space link (database for students and educators)
• http://www.seds.org Students for the Exporation and Discovery of Space
• http://www.marssociety.com Missions to Mars (not directly connected to Nasa - but the leading Mars Exploration page)

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