Astronomy on Tap Los Angeles Meetup

Astronomy on Tap Los Angeles held its April meetup on Monday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m. at Dog Haus Biergarten in Old Town Pasadena. (welikela.com) (caltech.edu) The night’s theme was “NASA Artemis & Lunar Landers,” with two public talks built around current Moon missions and lunar hardware. (caltech.edu) (sciencenearme.org) Sarah Elizabeth McCandless, a navigation engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, spoke on “Moonbound Again: Artemis II and the Return of Humans to Deep Space.” (welikela.com) (sciencenearme.org) Roshan Misra, lead mechanical engineer at Honeybee Robotics, followed with “LISTER: Why a lunar lander payload put a hole in the Moon.” (welikela.com) (caltech.edu) Astronomy on Tap events are built as public science nights rather than formal lectures, with short presentations, trivia, prizes, and audience questions in a bar setting. (astronomyontap.org 1) (astronomyontap.org 2) For the Pasadena event, organizers also advertised telescopes for guided stargazing, NASA swag, and astronomers on hand to answer questions. (sciencenearme.org) (astronomyontap.org) The Los Angeles chapter says it has hosted more than 140 events since 2016, drawing speakers from Caltech, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Planetary Society, University of California, Los Angeles, and Griffith Observatory. (astronomyontap.org) The April 27 session fit that pattern: a free, first-come, first-served night that turned Moon exploration into a neighborhood meetup in Pasadena. (welikela.com) (sciencenearme.org)