SOUTH FORK— July 20, 1969 was a huge day in the history of the United States when Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin were the first two people to set foot on the moon. In honor of that day, the South Fork Visitors Center, in partnership with the Chapel of South Fork, will be hosting an astrological viewing seminar and presentation by Earl Ellisor, an Apollo 11 team member on the evening of July 24.
The event will feature a talk by Eillisor who was an on the ground team member during the launch of Apollo 11. Apollo 11 was the fifth crewed mission of NASA’s Apollo program and the first to successfully place humans on the moon. The spacecraft was a Saturn V rocket that launched on July 16, 1969 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Armstrong and Aldrin spent a total of two and a half hours on the surface of the moon and according to historical records, collected 47 pounds of moon base material to take back to earth.
The South Fork Visitors Center will be offering square hamburgers, hotdogs and ice cream during the event and Director Mark Teders will be setting up his personal telescope for guests to have a chance to see some of the planets and stars visible during this time of year, weather and moon location permitting.
The night starts off at 6 p.m. with the presentation beginning at 7 p.m. For more information, please contact Mark at 873-5512.