Flamsteed lecture: Fly me to the Moon

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Essential Information

Type	Talks and tours
Location	National Maritime Museum
Date and Times	Monday 23 September 2024 \| Doors at 6.30pm, event starts at 7.15pm
Prices	Free for Flamsteed Members \| £15 for guests of Flamsteed Members, £12 for non Flamsteed Members of Royal Museums Greenwich

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The last year has witnessed significant lunar mission activity including the first commercial lunar landing, and the first mission to conduct sample-return from the lunar far-side.

Further missions are planned in the year and a crewed mission is scheduled to finally return to the moon in 2025.

It feels like a new space race is under way. But why should we go back? What questions still need to be answered? Is a long-term human presence on the Moon viable, or sensible? And what risks might there be in this new era of activity on the lunar surface?

A limited number of tickets for this event are available to £15 for guests of Flamsteed Members and Royal Museums Greenwich Members who are not a part of the Flamsteed Astronomy Society. In order to book these tickets please call us on 0208 312 6678 (Monday-Friday, 9am to 5pm). Flamsteed Astronomy Society Members can book here.

About the speaker

Dr Megan Argo is a professional astrophysicist and science communicator, currently a Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston.

As well as teaching undergraduate courses, Megan studies galaxies, black holes and supernovae in the nearby universe with continent-sized radio telescope networks. She has more than 20 years of public engagement experience, regularly appearing in the media to talk about astronomy and space news stories, gives public lectures and schools workshops all over the country, takes rockets to music festivals, and delivers STEM-focussed teacher training.

During the pandemic she delivered online planetarium shows to more than 1400 Brownies and Guides, for which she was awarded the British Empire Medal in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to Girlguiding. She is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and President of Shropshire Astronomical Society.

Main image courtesy of NASA/JSC/Daniel O'Neal