In 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy had a challenge for NASA – and the nation. The challenge was to land a man on the moon before the end of the decade. The race to meet his goal would require the greatest technological achievements the world has ever seen. The first Apollo missions were spent...
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Tara
on 06-29-2009
Filed under: Space
The past is past, as they say, but it’s never dead. The Archives is constantly acquiring, learning, and preserving new pieces of information about the way things used to be here at the Museum. Sometimes we go looking for things and sometimes they come to us. Recently we’ve been focusing on...