Exhibit runs from July 19&ndash\;August 17
\nMoon Dreams: A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing
\nFrom antiquity\, people have been fascinated with the heavens\, observing the stars\, the motion of the pla nets\, and especially\, the surface and phases of our nearest celestial ne ighbor\, the Moon. \;This fascination inspired authors\, artists\, an d musicians to create works that explored outer space when humans still la cked the ability to physically leave the boundaries of our atmosphere. Dre ams became reality\, nurtured by the Cold War competitive drive\, when the Soviet Union launched Vostok 1 and Yuri Gagarin became the first person t o reach outer space and circle the globe. \;Not to be outdone\, the N ational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States q uickly ramped up its efforts and in less than a year\, John Glenn orbited the earth three times. The space race was truly on and the goal was to be the first nation to successfully land a man on the moon\, and bring him ho me again. It took only a little over seven years to accomplish this astoni shing feat when on July 20\, 1969\, Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar mod ule pilot Buzz Aldrin \;safely landed on the surface of the moon and t ook those historic steps for all mankind.
\nWith books\, ephemera\, Legos\, and artifacts from NASA\, this exhibit celebrates the men and wome n who imagined\, engineered\, tested\, re-tested\, and finally succeeded i n fulfilling a dream humans had cherished for millennia--to walk on the Mo on. \;
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