We think we should try again!

And this time we will have more months to plan more carefully!

I think it would be a big mistake, and risk the same ho-hum reactions in the public with each new Apollo mission, to do an AMP for each one of them.

On the other hand, all the odd # missions are exceptionally notable and suggest special ways of handling the event:

• A11 - the first!
• A13 - near disaster - theme "Space is worth the risk"
• A15 - Lunar Rover Debut - Manned Lunar Rover design competitions (unpressurized, pressurized)
• A17 - the last - Lessons from Apollo missions mandate that we must return, this time to stay

The 40th Anniversary of Apollo 13 near disaster and successful recovery
Sunday April 11 - Saturday April 17, 2010 - The emergency occured on April 13th, 1970

OUR THEME: "Space is worth the Risks" - The pioneering of every froniter brought with it many risks. People did die, and in the end it was worth it. None of us who live in the Americas or Australia would be living here, if our ancestors had not accepted deadly risk as a acceptable price for the opportunity to live a more meaningful building a new frontier. We cannot allow those who have become danger-shy to impose that risk-aversity on anyone else! Volunteers have the right to risk their lives for opportunity.

• The "deadly" Moon and how we will meet all the challenges and learn to handle them as if by second nature even as all forntier-pioneering folk before us have done. Comparison to the home country of the Eskimo and Innuit in the arctic.
• Disadvantages are the key and the clue to turn them into Opportunities
• A poll on the acceptability of risk, by age, demographics, income, etc.
• The Movie Apollo 13, the Book Apollo 13, patches, other memorabilia
• A list of Books and Films about similar heroism (Shakleton's call, and misadventures)
• Appearnaces or video snippet from Jim Lovell, Tom Hanks, Gary Sinese, others