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It was Wednesday, July 16, 1969 and the Apollo 11 US space mission was taking off, leaving behind its Soviet competitors in the "Space Race" that was remembered, which wanted the first human being to Walking on the Moon On the night of July 20, the crew of Mission Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Aldrin Jr. landed at dawn the next morning. by the surface of the satellite.
Since then, the milestone has been considered one of the most important for humanity and representative of the 20th century. Apollo 11 was one of nine lunar missions and thanks to its global television broadcast, it has awakened in several generations the interest of discovering the secrets of the universe.
49 years of the historic day, Eduardo Frei Montalva House Museum invites to celebrate this anniversary with the day "A race to space" which offers two free workshops on Saturday, July 21, animated by two pbadionate science broadcasters who will develop practical and theoretical activities around the nature of the universe and the technology used in the Apollo missions to reach the moon.
The day will begin with the "Know the Moon" workshop, for children from 6 to 12 years old, who will have to attend accompanied by an adult, from 10:00 to 13:00. : 00 hours Taught by Javier Baeza, physicist, educator and scientist disseminator, the activity invites us to discover the Universe, Astronomy and the journey to the Moon from the nature of space, with a mix of exhibition and entertainment experiences.
Then, from 15:00 to 18:00, the workshop "Traveling to the Moon" will be given to young people, from the age of 13, and to adults. Taught by Jorge Ianiszewski, scientific and educational disseminator, specialist of the themes of astronomy and space, and author of the book "Guide to the Southern Skies", will receive the participants with a scientific presentation and a workshop on the race for space, deepening technology and equipment used by Apollo missions to reach the Moon.
A bit of the Moon at EFM House Museum
In 1970, a year after the man walked on the moon for the first time, the former president Eduardo Frei Montalva received on the Chilean soil, this time, interplanetary travelers from Apollo 12: Richard F. Gordon and his companions Alan Bean and Charles Conrad.
During the visits, the Americans presented the President with autographed photographs of the two space missions, At present, the public is exhibited in the room decorations of the EFM House Museum next to the pedestal with three fragments of moonstone and the Chilean flag. traveled on the moon during the first space adventure. Next to the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), EFM House Museum is one of only two entities in Chile to house pieces of lunar stones as part of its collection.
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