The topic of the day was Moons and The Moon!

The Cathedral of the Incarnation is holding their “Moon as Sacred Mirror” exhibit and festivities over the next few weeks.  Tonight was Adelphi Night at the Cathedral.  It was also a night to talk about moons of all kinds.

The evening was opened by Congresswoman Laura Gillen.  She is on the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee and Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.  She gave a great opening to the evening stressing the importance of STEM education.

The second speaker was Jason Kim, the CEO of Firefly Aerospace.  He discussed his company’s mission have vehicles to land and operate in space.  He showed a video of Firefly Aerospace landing the first commercial lander on the moon. 

The third speaker for the day is Professor of History and History Department chair Ed Reno.  He spoke about history, the science revolution, and Galileo.  He, along with Dean Kyle Sabo, set up this amazing day.

Batting in clean up (fourth position), was my class, specifically Mariane Diby’26 and Ryan Carty’25.  They gave a general physics presentation of the moons of Jupiter and their importance to physics.  I can’t tell you how proud I am of both Marianne and Ryan.  They gave a fun and stirring talk as part of their Astrophysics class.  Great work – I love it when my students do great things!  There were so many good questions and they did a wonderful job answering them.

This is 100% exactly the kind of evening I signed up for when I became a professor at Adelphi University. 

The pictures are out-of-this-world beautiful.