Comics Inspire the Moon: Artemis and Apollo from Those Who Built Them

This panel explores how comics have inspired missions to the moon, including the recent Artemis II mission last spring. Ben Dickow of L.A.'s Columbia Memorial Space Center, a propulsion engineer from the NASA Artemis mission, and Jerry Blackburn, a retired engineer who worked on the Apollo moon missions, discuss current and past missions and how sci-fi and comic books inspired their real-life journeys to space. They are joined by Ray Hedgpeth and members of L.A.'s Captured Aural Phantasy…