HISTORY IN OUR BACKYARD

Name: HISTORY IN OUR BACKYARD
Start: 2025-10-09T19:30:00-04:00
Location: 780 Falcon Circle, Warminster, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 18974

Schedule

Thu, 09 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

780 Falcon Circle, Warminster, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 18974 | Warminster, PA

Delaware Valley and the Space Race
Join us for a live event at The Fuge in Warminster, PA exploring the rich heritage of the greater Philadelphia region and its association with The Space Race!
To listen to the livestream, you must be on our email distribution list. Email us at [email protected] to be included. Zoom link will only be shared on the date of the program. Zoom line opens at 7pm ET and program will promptly start at 7:30pm ET. Thank you.
Event address:
The Fuge
780 Falcon Circle
Warminster, PA 18974
The lecture will be held in “The Studio” on the 3rd floor of the Fuge. Enter the building from the Tranquility Brewing Co. entrance and proceed down the hallway ahead of you to the first hallway on the right. Turn right and proceed through the glass doors to the end of that hallway, bear right and a quick left and take the large freight elevator on your left to "The Studio".
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About Gregory P. Kennedy
Greg Kennedy is the former director of education at NASTAR Center, a leading provider of spaceflight training for commercial vehicles, in Southampton, PA. Previously, he was associate curator for manned spaceflight at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC; director of the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas, Texas; founding director of the American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum in Fort Worth; executive director of the Space Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico; executive director of the Mid Atlantic Air Museum in Liberal, Kansas; and executive director of the American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Kennedy is also an aerospace historian whose books include Touching Space: The Story of Project Manhigh, Apollo to the Moon, The First Men in Space, Rockets and Missiles of White Sands Proving Ground, and Vengeance Weapon Two: Germany’s V-2 Rocket. He was also a co-author of The Space Shuttle Operator’s Manual and Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum.
Join us pre lecture for dinner or drinks in Tranquility Brewing Company and use code "Cold War History" for 10% off