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Feb. 27—WAPAKONETA — The Auglaize County Historical Society is hosting an event aimed at welcoming visitors who have come to the Wapakoneta area for the April 8 solar eclipse to learn about ...
The Armstrong Air & Space Museum is a museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio, the hometown of aviator and astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon. Opened in 1972, the museum chronicles Ohio 's contributions to the history of aeronautics and space flight.
The museum is also preparing for the upcoming solar eclipse in the spring. According to Centuori, the museum has over 40,000 visitors each year. "We are ready (for the eclipse)," Centuori said.
While the Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon rock presented to Cyprus was recovered, the Apollo 11 rock given to the country remains missing. [8]In his June 26, 2011 Op/Ed appearing in the Cyprus Mail entitled "Houston we have a problem: we didn't give Cyprus its moon rock", Joseph Gutheinz revealed that after NASA recovered the Cyprus Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rock over a year ago they failed to give the ...
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who, in 1969, became the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Armstrong was born and raised in Wapakoneta, Ohio.
May 1—WAPAKONETA — The Armstrong Air and Space Museum in Wapakoneta is seeking submissions for artwork as part of its logo design contest for the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to ...
The facility took its current name on 1 March 2014, honoring Neil Armstrong, a former test pilot at the center and the first human being to walk on the Moon. [9] [10] AFRC was the home of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), a modified Boeing 747 designed to carry a Space Shuttle orbiter back to Kennedy Space Center if one landed at Edwards.
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