MY UPCOMING FREE EVENTS:

• Stay tuned!

INTERESTING LINKS:
NASA.gov
NASA SOLAR SYSTEM WEBSITE
Mobile Apps: NASA App (iOS / Android) / NASA Selfies (iOS / Android)
Send your Name to Jupiter's moon, Europa (deadline 12/31/2023)
NASA Spot the Station
Live view of Earth from the International Space Station
NASA Space Place for Kids

Images from spacecraft & space telescopes:
NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Images
NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover images
NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter images (Juno Cam)
NASA's Cassini Mission to Saturn images
Webb Space Telescope images
NASA's New Horizons Mission to Pluto & the Kuiper Belt images

Marty McGuire, NASA JPL Solar System Ambassador Volunteer

Marty McGuire is an amateur/backyard astronomer and lifelong aeronautical & space enthusiast in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and enjoys presenting to groups of all ages in the Lehigh Valley area. He can be found on social media as “Backyard Astronomy Guy” and has participated in “#NASAsocial” events at NASA Headquarters, NASA Kennedy Space Center, NASA Goddard and NASA Wallops Flight Facility. He likes to stay current with developments in human spaceflight, solar system exploration and deep space telescope missions.

The NASA Solar System Ambassadors program is a public engagement effort that works with motivated volunteers across the nation to communicate the science and excitement of NASA’s space exploration missions and discoveries with the people in their communities. Learn more at https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/ssa

View my Webb Space Telescope model & instructions

Me in the News:

• 5/6/2023: LehighValleyLive.com: "Lehigh Valley Space Fest lifts off toward its lofty goal — inspiration"

• 5/6/2023: LehighValleyLive.com: "The First Lehigh Valley Space Fest"

• 5/6/2023: LehighValleyNews.com "This is the kind of thing kids remember": Lehigh Valley Space Fest brings planets, stars down to Earth to inspire youth

• 5/6/2023: WFMZ.com: "Fun activities set for Lehigh Valley Space Fest"

• 5/5/2023: LehighValleyLive.com: "Lehigh Valley Space Fest is go for launch. What to know for this weekend’s free event | Time, schedule

• 1/17/2023: LehighValleyLive.com: "New Lehigh Valley SpaceFest will ‘bring space down to Earth’ when it lands in Easton this spring"

• 1/17/2023: Lehigh Valley With Love (Podcast): "Lehigh Valley Space Fest Reaches Orbit"

• 1/3/2023: LehighValleyNews.com: Lehigh Valley Space Fest in the works

• 9/17/2021: LehighValleyLive.com: Lehigh Valley in space: Martin Guitar ukulele among local items in SpaceX Inspiration4 payload

• 9/16/2021: LehighValleyLive.com: Inspiration4 tracker: When you might see the historic SpaceX mission over the Lehigh Valley

• 7/6/2021: WFMZ 69 News: What’s up for July 2021?

• 7/6/2021: WFMZ 69 News: Sunspots more frequent now during ‘active’ solar cycle

• 6/25/2021: WFMZ 69 News: Full Moon

• 6/24/2021: Morning Call: The Strawberry Moon will rise today

• 6/10/2021: Morning Call (mcall.com): Skygazers got up early to capture rare sunrise solar eclipse

• 5/31/2021: LehighValleyLive.com: How to Prepare for the June 10 Solar Eclipse

• 3/7/2021: WFMZ 69 News: What’s Up for March 2021?

• 2/18/2021: WFMZ 69 News: Landing Day for NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover!

• 2/5/2021: WFMZ 69 News: What’s Up for February?

• 1/19/2021: WFMZ.com: See Uranus with your own eyes: Here’s how

• 1/18/2021: WMFZ 69 News: It’s a chilly and windy week ahead

• 1/4/2021: WFMZ 69 News: What’s Up for January?

• 12/14/2020: LehighValleyLive.com: ‘Christmas’ Star Returns (login required)

• 12/1/2020: WFMZ.com: See the International Space Station fly over you Thursday

• 12/14/2020: WFMZ.com: See “shooting stars” with your own eyes

• 10/18/2020: WFMZ 69 News (Orionid Meteor Shower Viewing Tips)

• 10/10/2020: WFMZ 69 News (Morning Forecast, my Mars video)

• 10/10/2020: WFMZ 69 News (Mars Perseverance Rover & Helicopter)

• 7/13/2017: Engadget.com: NASA releases close-up photos of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot