581 Himes Road, Frederick, MD 21703

Please join your fellow club members, family and friends for our annual banquet at one of the area’s finest banquet facilities. Starting at 6:00 pm, enjoy the cash bar, appetizers and the camaraderie. Then starting around 7:00 pm dinner seating will begin with a choice 3 dinner buffet entrées (see below). After dinner, you be treated to a presentation on the Apollo Project- The Race to the Moon: New Perspectives for the 50th Anniversary by M-ASA’s very own Dr. William (Bill) Barry, Chief Historian for NASA (see below for more details).

• Please RSVP no later than January 25, 2020 by clicking on this RSVP
• In your RSVP, please include the member’s name and the member’s guest(s) names(s)
  
• $38 per member and $38 for one non-member guest  (additional non-member guests are $45 each)
• M-ASA Members will be invoiced for their and their guest(s) attendance (no need for pre-payment)
• Seating is limited to 130
• Cash Bar
  

Includes:

• Appetizers: Vegetable & Cheese Display Served with Ranch Dip & Cracker, Hot Spinach Dip Served with Tortilla Chips
• Entrees - Choice of the following (Buffet)
  • Carved Top Round
  • Fresh Atlantic Salmon Blackened with a Honey Glaze
  • Dutch’s Chicken (Chicken Tenderloins Topped with Ham with Asparagus & Cheese
• Includes: Tossed Garden or Caesar Salad and Fresh Baked Bread, Twice Baked Potato, Rice Pilaf & Fresh Seasonal Vegetable
• Chef’s Choice of Dessert,
• Coffee, Tea & Soda

More About Our Guest Speaker Dr. William (Bill) Barry

Dr. Bill Barry has been serving as NASA’s Chief Historian since 2010. He began work at NASA in 2001 after retiring from a 22-year career in the US Air Force.  He worked in NASA’s international relations office for several years, and served as the NASA European Representative at the United States Embassy in Paris, before being appointed Chief Historian. Keen observers and fans of the Moon Race will recognize from Dr. Barry from his multiple appearances in the 6 part series “Apollo’s Moon Shot” on the Smithsonian Channel.

A graduate, with honors, of the United States Air Force Academy (1979), he also holds a Masters Degree from Stanford University (1987) and a Doctorate from Oxford University (1996).