The History of NASA NEW

Dates: 4/9/2026-5/14/2026

Time: Thursday, 12:45-2:05 PM

Location: Baldwin Wallace Strosacker Hall Student Union 125 Tressel St Berea, OH 44017

Room: Conference Room

Instructor: Thomas Benson

Class #: S26-39

We are living in the space age. Leading and guiding our advances has been the mission of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The preceding classes have looked at space missions carrying astronauts into earth orbit, on to the surface of the Moon and living in space aboard the International Space Station (ISS). But there is more to NASA than astronauts. These classes will explore the robotic science missions, Voyager’s mission to the planets, the Mars landers and rovers and Galileo’s mission to the moons of Jupiter. We will also detail the findings of the Hubble and Webb space telescopes. We will begin the classes with the contribution of the aeronautics research centers to the aerospace industry; the first “A” in NASA.

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Your Instructor

Tom Benson is a Retired Senior Research Engineer from the NASA Glenn Research Center. He retired in 2015 after more than 35 years of service at NASA Glenn. For the first 20 years, he specialized in computer modeling of supersonic and hypersonic flows in propulsion systems. The last 15 years were mainly devoted to educational outreach.