Hello all,
I represented the Moon Society as the Nashville Outpost at the ICCC’24 (Imperial Commissary Collector’s Convention) predominantly Star Wars collector’s convention on Sunday 10/6 from 10:00 to 5:00 at Nashville’s Music City Sheraton Hotel.
I presented my “Apollo to Artemis and Beyond” spacecraft exhibit including a Saturn V, LEM, STS, ISS, and SpaceX’s Dragon, Falcon, Starships and HLS Moon lander. I showed Boeing’s Starliner and Blue Origin’s New Shepard, New Glenn and Blue Moon landers.
I also presented a Moon base of the near future with rovers and robots. I had products made from lunar stimulants to show how we might make products on the moon.
I had models of the Mars rover Perseverance and Ingenuity helicopter, a SpaceX Mars colony, Hubble and Webb telescopes, Voyager and the new Europa Clipper probe.
I had a few Star Wars models on display and gave several away along with stickers, bookmarks, space books and magazines.
I spoke with about 100 of their estimated 1,000 guests.
I met some very interested people and a few “out of this world” characters. See photos below. Everyone was having a good time. I plan to be back next year.
Two events on Saturday:
Saturday 10/12
STEAM-a-palooza from 12:00 to 4:00 at the Murfreesboro Discovery Center. It’s outdoors so I will probably do solar sunspot viewing and solar system science posters and models. It’s free so feel free to come out and join me.
Saturday 10/12
Star Party from 6:00 to 10:00 at Bells Bend Nature Center with Barnard Seyfert Astronomical Society. All telescope viewing is free.
I plan to be there ASAP after leaving Murfreesboro. The Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)
Should be visible just after sunset.
Chuck Schlemm
Guest with Star Wars toys I gave him
