A History of Space Exploration Through Stamps
| Hours: | 7:00 - 8:30 |
| Ages: | Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | Free see below |
| Category: | Books & Poetry |
17 at 7:00 pm at the Spellman Museum of Stamps and Postal History at Regis College in Weston.
Ball has been a stamp collector for 40 years and is a Clinical Analyst at the Medical University of SC and an Air Force Flight Nurse.
He collects classic US manned and unmanned space covers (envelopes) with a special interest in experimental flight.
In 1993 he led an expedition that reexamined the 1967 crash of X-15 #3.
The findings were published in Quest Magazine in 1994 and videotaped interviews were included in the Space Craft Films X-15 DVD set released in 2006.
By reviewing his book and showing stamps, special envelopes and other stamp related material about the US space program, he will give an overview of the many accomplishments by NASA and other space programs.
The program should prove of interest to both collectors and non-collectors of stamps plus those interested in the history of space exploration.
Ball married into the NASA family.
His wife Anne remembers Neil Armstrong shaking her hand at the National Cathedral, following the service that placed a moon rock in a stain glass window.
Her father, William J.
O’Donnell, worked at NASA Headquarters and his career spanned from Schirra’s Mercury flight to the first flights of the Space Shuttle.
Anne’s sister, Janet, was a NASA educator and her mother, Linn, had been a “computer” at Langley.
The program is free to the general public and more information is available at 617-784-5838 or info@spellman.org
| COST | ↑ top |
free
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241 Wellesley St., Weston, MA, 02493 map
Phone: 617-784-5838
On campus of Regis College
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