
Omaha Film Festival is coming March 6-14, 2010!
MOVIE TALK: IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON WITH JACK DUNN
Sunday, October 28 at 3 p.m. (following the 12:50 p.m. screening of IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON).
Admission to the Movie Talk is open to the public and free. Admission to the screening is a regular Ross prices. Sponsored by the Friends of the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center .
Between 1968 and 1972, nine American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon, and 12 men walked upon its surface. They remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON brings together for the first, and possibly the last, time surviving crew members from every single Apollo mission that flew to the Moon, and allows them to tell their story in their own words.
JACK A. DUNN – Brief Bio
Jack graduated from Midland Lutheran College in Fremont in 1969 with a B.S. Math Science Composite major. He later got his M.Ed. from University of Nebraska – Lincoln in 1974. After college, he directed a planetarium in Lafayette , Louisiana before returning to Nebraska and has been Planetarium Coordinator at Mueller Planetarium at UNL since 1971. Dunn produced the first short astronomy demonstration show in laser-display format for the visually impaired in 1992, for which he received an International Laser Display Association special award. He is a member and Fellow of the International Planetarium Society (IPS) and currently serves on the IPS Council (the organization’s governing body). He is also the current
President of the Great Plains Planetarium Association (1997 -present) and also was president of GPPA from 1972-80. As a founding board member (1978) of Hyde Memorial Observatory (a public observatory in Lincoln , Nebraska dedicated to public astronomy outreach and education), Dunn serves as the current President of Hyde Observatory Board of Supervisors. He is also a member of the JPL Museum Alliance - a group of Aerospace Educators. Dunn is currently collaborating with Paul Bourke of the University of Western Australia in Perth using the spherical projection system invented by Bourke to bring full dome video into small and medium sized planetarium theaters in the US . Mueller Planetarium was the first fixed dome Planetarium to use the Bourke software in the US . With a lifelong interest in spaceflight and space exploration history, Dunn was a NASA guest at the launch of Apollo 14 and more recently was a guest of Clayton Anderson at his launch via Shuttle Atlantis from Kennedy Space Center .
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