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.) Working under pressure, making split-second decisions, and managing risk in real time were essential elements of the job - a kind of intensity that finds a modern parallel in digital environments engineered for high stakes and strategic action, such as city center online casino, where each interaction demands focus, timing, and precision. The legacy of Apollo continues to resonate in systems built for challenge and performance.

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 is a reasonable low rate. 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 with the details of your prospective program. Corporate inquiries should be addressed to the Mark Larson Speakers Group by clicking on the logo below.
 


 

• *Keynote Speaker- AMSAT Annual Symposium

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

• *Keynote Speaker-California State University Los Angeles College of Engineering (Nat’l Engineers Week)

• *Keynote Speaker- ChildBuilders Annual Banquet; Houston, Texas

• *Keynote Speaker- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Florida (Nat'l Engineers Week)

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

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

• *Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

• *Autographica Convention, Heathrow, London, U.K.

• *Burr & Burton Academy, Vermont

• *Case Western University- Cleveland, OH

• *Georgia Tech College of Engineering

• *John Carroll University-Cleveland, OH
  *Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Museum Lecture Series--Hutchinson, Kansas

• *MAPLD Conference, Washington, DC

• *MIT graduate engineering class - Boston, Mass.

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

• *NASA Ames Research Center

• *NASA Glenn Research Center

• *NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center

• *NASA Johnson Space Center

• *National Space Society International Space development Conference

• *Strategic Air & Space Museum, Ashland, Nebraska

• *UACC Autograph Convention: Kennedy Space Center, Florida

• *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.