Cleveland State Community College invites the community to a free lecture in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Project Gemini on Monday, April 21, 5 p.m. in the Mary T. Barker Humanities Building on the Cleveland campus.
In 1965, the first crewed missions of Project Gemini occurred and paved the way for the Moon
landings of Project Apollo. Dr. Neil Greenwood, Professor of History, will lead the lecture for students in his modern and United States history classes. He invites the public to join the class for this presentation.
Greenwood said, “Project Gemini was important to the Project Apollo Moon landings because the Gemini mission crews developed techniques in spacecraft rendezvous, spacecraft docking and extravehicular activities (space walks). Such techniques for the rendezvousing and docking of two separate spacecraft had to be developed for the lunar and command modules of the Apollo spacecraft.”
Greenwood has been teaching U.S. history, world history and Tennessee history at Cleveland State since 1992. He has a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in history from California State University, Fullerton and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); he holds a doctorate degree in history from UCLA.