Co-sponsored by: Celsa PAchlhofer

The IEEE HOU Sec in parnership with IEEE HOU Sec Oceanengineering Society is honored to host Mr. Jerry Woodfill. Mr. Woodfill for more than 50 years, has been employed by NASA in Houston. At the onset of the lunar landing program, he managed the spacecraft warning systems that was monitoring spacecraft Eagle’s descent when Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon.

On April 13, 1970, he was monitoring Apollo 13’s warning system when the vehicle exploded. His system was the first alert of the life-threatening malfunction depicted in the Tom Hanks-Ron Howard movie APOLLO 13. For his role in the rescue of Apollo 13, he shared the Presidential Medal of Freedom as a member of the Apollo 13 Mission Operations Team.

It is our honor to host Mr. Jerry Woodfill as our Distinguish Speaker at our next meeting. 

Speaker(s): Jerry Woodfill,

Agenda:

6:00 pm Registration / Ntworking

6:45 pm Dinner 

7:15 pm Presentation

8:15 Q&A

Location:
HESS CLUB
5430 Westheimer Road
Houston, Texas
77056