Lecture: Robert Stengel: “Project Apollo: Origins, Missions, and the Legacy”

As the 50th anniversary of the July, 1969, Apollo moon landing approaches, Robert Stengel, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University gives a talk. Stengel’s talk will examine Project Apollo from the viewpoint of his time spent at the Draper Laboratory from 1968-73 where he was principal designer of the Apollo Project Lunar Module manual control logic used for all moon landings and where he went on to create a preliminary design for the Space Shuttle atmospheric flight control system.