Skylab launched on May 14, 1973 and AIAA Greater Huntsville Section is commemorating the 50th anniversary of this launch with a talk on the Skylab program and its impact on long duration spaceflight initiatives with this talk from David Hitt. This event is at the Huntsville Public Library auditorium on Wednesday, May 24th at 6 PM. Register via Eventbrite link here: Everything I Need to Know About Going to Mars I Learned From Skylab Tickets, Wed, 24 May 2023 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
About the speaker: David Hitt is co-author of two books, "Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story," written with astronauts Owen Garriott and Joe Kerwin, and "Bold They Rise: The Space Shuttle Early Years," both part of the University of Nebraska Press' Ordway-Award-winning Outward Odyssey spaceflight history series; his next book, "Rocket Science," is slated for 2025. David has appeared in documentaries including the award-winning "Searching for Skylab" and "Saving Skylab."
He has worked as a contractor at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center since 2002, and currently works for Jacobs as a systems engineer supporting payload integration for NASA's Space Launch System rocket, a foundational capability for humanity's return to the Moon through Artemis. David is a recipient of NASA's Silver Snoopy Award, presented by the agency's Astronaut Office, and the AIAA Greater Huntsville Section's Hermann Oberth Award.
A former newspaper editor, Hitt is a native of Huntsville, Alabama, and holds a bachelors degree in journalism from the University of Mississippi and is pursuing a masters in systems engineering at Embry-Riddle. David is a past Policy Formulation Subcommittee chair for the National Space Society and a senior member of the AIAA. David and his wife Rebecca have one son, Owen.
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Tracie Prater
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