The Apollo 11 exhibit is the next big national tour you need to catch

Space and science nerds, rejoice!

A monumental piece of space exploration history — the Apollo 11 capsule — is soon launching a national tour, giving you a chance to get an up-close view of the spacecraft used in the first lunar landing.

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The Columbia capsule, which took Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on a nearly million-mile journey to the moon and back, is the centerpiece of the upcoming Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission tour of four museums across the country to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the moon landing in 2019.  Read more...

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