FREE ADMISSION and Family Friendly.

The museum will host a book signing by NASA rocket man Ike Rigell* and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 12 Moon landing at our Cosmic Christmas Yard Sale.

The day will include a table discussion with Grumman Corp. workers who built the Lunar Modules, an Apollo 12 retrospective by space journalist Dr. Ken Kremer**, and an update on Project Artemis to the Moon by NASA Solar System Ambassador Tyler Hines.

10 am – 5 pm – Yard sale in front parking lot.

10 am – Museum Opens. You can get a jump on Christmas shopping and browse for those items only ASM has to offer for Space Lovers. Rigell, who is age 96, will autograph his book, “Ike,” about his legendary life as a World War II hero and NASA rocket engineer/director.

11 am – Panel discussion “Building the Moonship” by retired Grumman workers, followed by questions and answers from the audience.

1 pm – Talk by accomplished space journalist Dr. Ken Kremer on the second manned moon landing on Nov. 19, 1969 by Charles “Pete” Conrad and Alan Bean.

3 pm – NASA Solar System Ambassador Tyler Hines will be on hand to talk about the new Artemis Moon program.

5 pm – 8pm – The Brevard Astronomical Society will have telescopes in the back parking lot to view Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and the celestial sights of the Autumn constellations.

Throughout the day there will be family fun with “straw rockets,” space glove boxes, docent talks in our galleries and, of course, Tang refreshments!

You can make it an early “Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Tuesday Giving” by supporting our non-profit in the gift shop or at the Cosmic Christmas Yard Sale that will have many space program items like photos that hung in NASA offices as we as all kinds of real space memorabilia. Plus we have inherited many quality gift shop items from the defunct Cocoa Planetarium, available at deep discounts.

* Ike Rigell is a Marine veteran of World War II, fighting in the Pacific Rim at all major conflicts. A Georgia Tech engineering graduate, he joined the Army Ballistic Missile Agency in the 1950s, which became NASA. Rigell has been at every major American rocket launch—from the first satellite Explorer 1 in 1958 to assistant launch director for the Apollo missions, through Apollo-Soyuz in 1975, when he was launch director. His book, “Ike, The Memoir or Isom “Ike” Rigell,” is a tribute to one of the great American heroes in the battlefield of humanity, driven to preserve the freedom to explore outer space.

** Dr. Ken Kremer is a research chemist, space/science journalist, photographer, speaker and founder/managing editor of Space UpClose website, working tirelessly in the media pool reporting all things related to NASA and Space Exploration. Ken is based nearby the Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, FL., active in outreach and interviewed regularly on TV and radio about space topics. Dr. Kremer offers independent analysis about space topics. He lectures about both human spaceflight and robotic spaceflight – specializing in Mars.