Speaker

I welcome an opportunity to speak at your next event.

As you can see in reviewing my biography, I have held real-time mission leadership positions throughout the Apollo program, including Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) which was the first international space mission. Additionally, I had direct involvement in Skylab, early Shuttle missions and the International Space Station (ISS). I have received awards in recognition of my service to our nation.

My name is readily associated with the Apollo era. I assumed  a significant role in the Apollo 13 mission as lead EECOM flight controller in Mission Control. My involvement  was portrayed by actor Clint Howard in the movie "Apollo 13" (EECOM was my Mission Control console call sign.)

Not long ago, my autobiography "Apollo EECOM:Journey Of A Lifetime" was published by Apogee Books. Together with the notoriety from the movie, there has been a continuing request over the years for me to speak about my space program experiences. I was in the thick of things during the height of the lunar landing program - my memory of that period and the human interaction is still clear in my mind and I communicate those experiences before various audiences and the communications media.

I've come to the realization that I am one of a small group of private individuals who are engaged in what can euphemistically be called "knowledge preservation." It is sobering to know that most of my peers are both retired and scattered or have passed away. I'm the only flight controller, especially from the Apollo era, who is out speaking to the public and has written a book about my life experiences in and out of Mission Control.

The knowledge and experience of managing human spaceflight in the endeavor of landing them on another world is being lost to our new Vision for Space Exploration. This will be the first program in which a progressive handover of experience such as was effected from Mercury to Gemini to Apollo will be absent. Even Skylab and ASTP benefited from the participation of the same experienced personnel.

My honorarium remains at a very reasonable $2,500 plus expenses. There is no added expense nor involvement with a speaker service. I am dedicated to deliver an informative, interesting human perspective of our nation's historical groundwork and foundation for today's space endeavors.

If you're interested in requesting my speaking services, please drop me an e-mail with the details of your prospective program.
 

• Keynote Speaker- Aids Infected Children Fundraiser- Saarbrucken, Germany

• Keynote Speaker- International Society for Measurement and Control, New Jersey

• Keynote Speaker- Silicon Valley Engineers Week, NASA Ames Research Center, California

• Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Museum Lecture Series--Hutchinson, Kansas

• Georgia Tech College of Engineering

• MAPLD Conference, Washington, DC

• MIT graduate engineering class - Boston, Mass.

• Museum Of Flight- Astronaut Remembrance Week- Seattle, Washington

• NASA Ames Research Center

• University of Alaska-Anchorage

• University of Illinois-Urbana, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering

• University of Washington College of Engineering, Seattle,Washington

• Weston/Wayland Rotary Club-Boston, Mass.

2007 Appearance Schedule
 

√ Feb. 13, Child Builders Annual Banquet; Houston, Texas
      Keynote speaker.
     http://www.childbuilders.org/

√ Feb. 20, California State University Los Angeles College of  Engineering   
(Nat’l Engineers  Week)
Lecture and book sales/signing planned.
 http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/ecst/

√ March 12,  Goddard Space Flight Center, Spring Colloquium Series
Lecture and book sales/signing planned.
http://ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/

√ early April, Burr and Burton Academy, Manchester, Vermont:
    Lecture and book sales/signing planned.
    http://www.burrburton.org

√ May 3-5, Strategic Air & Space Museum, Ashland, Nebraska
Lectures, book sales/signing
www.strategicairandspace.com

√ May 18-26,  Paris

√June 7-9, 2007 UACC Autograph Convention: Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Lecture & book sales/signing
http://www.farthestreaches.com/autographshows.htm 

√September 11-16, NASA Glenn Research Center, Case Western Reserve University,
John Carroll University, Cleaveland, Ohio
Lecture & book sales/signing palnned

√Oct. 20, 21, Make Magazine Maker Faire, Austin, Texas
    Keynote Speaker
    http://www.makezine.com/magazine/

√Oct. 26, 27, 2007 AMSAT Symposium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 Keynote Speaker
 http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/symposium/2007/index.php