The US manned lunar exploration program is one of the great feats of exploration, program management, scientific development and most of all, tremendous guts and focus under pressure of the last 100 years.

In this presentation you’ll hear about the connections from the US Manned Lunar Exploration program to ...

From the 1950s - animal cruelty, men’s fashion

From the 1960s – light planes, corporate metrics, women’s empowerment, basketball, the McCormick car, chemistry, the Bible, Dave Gilmour and Roger Waters, cricket, freight infrastructure, Elvis, the importance to NASA of felt tip pens and duct tape

From the 1970s – the importance of taking spare underwear with you when on a long trip, Sir Isaac Newton and Galileo, golf, heavy metal music, lawlessness, and government budgeting