... American Triumph: Project Apollo . Jim Hand . Thursday, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:00 PM . This month’s speaker will be physicist Jim Hand who worked for Kollsman Instruments and at the MIT Instrumentation Lab during the Apollo years designing and integrating hardware and software for the command and lunar modules including a fifteen million dollar telescope used on the lunar module to assist in navigation. ... Nov . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...