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Going Galactic in The Big Bend of West Texas

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Meet the First African American to Walk in Space

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Fly Me to the Moon

July 16, 2009 | By Heather Brand

Forty years ago, on July 20, 1969, millions of Americans sat riveted to their television sets as they watched astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon and speak those memorable words, “The Eagle has landed.” This “giant leap for mankind” would not have been possible without Houston’s own Johnson Space Center, which coordinated the historic Apollo mission.

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