John Delano received his PhD in geochemistry at Stony Brook University, and retired in late 2016 at the rank of Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York.  He also served as the Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University, an Associate Director of a NASA Astrobiology Institute involving a consortium of five universities, served on more than two dozen scientific advisory panels for both NASA and the National Science Foundation.  His research was funded principally by NASA that resulted in 70 peer-reviewed articles in professional journals plus two papers in professional journals since retiring.

The title of his presentation on October 27 is ‘The Apollo 11 landing on the Moon: Little-known stories’.  It will also include a brief overview of NASA’s Artemis program for returning astronauts to the Moon.