Tag: History
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NASA’s Boeing-built moon rovers are granted Washington state landmark status
Apollo 17’s lunar rover sits at its resting place at the Taurus-Littrow landing site in 1972. (NASA Photo) Three hot rods on the moon are now official Washington state historic landmarks, thanks to a unanimous vote by a state commission. The thumbs-up, delivered on Friday during a virtual public hearing organized by the Washington State…
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Top 5 things to do at Museum of Flight’s ‘Above and Beyond’ aerospace exhibit
London visitor Letu Yang helps his 4-year-old son, Rafael Yang, fly a custom-built jet through a “Full Throttle” simulation at the “Above and Beyond” exhibit at the Museum of Flight. (GeekWire photo by Alan Boyle) Most of the floor space at Seattle’s Museum of Flight is set aside to celebrate past glories of aerospace – but “Above…
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No borders: Space heroes join together for epic night
Gene Cernan, Dick Gordon, Buzz Aldrin, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders at the Museum of Flight in Seattle on Saturday night. Photos by Long B. Nguyen, used with permission. www.longbachnguyen.com. They were all up on stage when the cosmonaut Valery Kubasov was introduced. With a lapel full of medals he strode across stage. As he walked past…