Armstrong Air and Space Museum

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The Armstrong Air and Space Museum

The Armstrong Air and Space Museum is a museum in Wapakoneta , Ohio, USA , the birthplace of Neil Armstrong , the first man to walk on the moon. In his honor, the museum was built as a futuristic aerospace museum.

The museum is intended to represent Ohio's contribution to the development of space travel . The exhibits shown include a Douglas F5D Skylancer , the lander for the Gemini 8 mission , equipment from the Apollo 11 mission and lunar rocks . Some of the exhibits are on loan from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and the Air Force Museum . In Astro Theater of the museum find Multimedia held presentations.

After the successful completion of the Apollo 11 mission, James A. Rhodes , Governor of Ohio, proposed the construction of a museum to honor Armstrong and "all the people of Ohio who defeated gravity". The Wapakoneta Community raised over $ half a million in donations and the State of Ohio gave another half a million. After the foundation stone was laid in 1970, the museum was opened in 1972 in the presence of Neil Armstrong and the new Governor John Gilligan .

The museum is funded by the private, nonprofit Ohio Historical Society and donations from local residents. The museum is run by John Zwez, who is related to Neil Armstrong. After a $ 1.15 million renovation in 1999 by the Ohio Cultural Facilities Commission , the museum reopened in June 1999.

Web links

Commons : Armstrong Air and Space Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: State Historical Projects, Ohio Cultural Facilities Commission, Columbus, OH. (Retrieved January 19, 2009.)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.culture.ohio.gov
  2. ↑ Kathy Sawyer: Armstrong's Code . In: "Washington Post Magazine", July 11, 1999. ZDB -ID 1257993-2

Coordinates: 40 ° 33 '47.6 "  N , 84 ° 10' 22.3"  W.