NASA’s Apollo 11 space capsule «Columbia» took astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to lunar orbit and safely back home in July 1969. The fiftieth anniversary of that trip is coming up soon, so the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum is going to put the 13,600 pound capsule on display in four major U.S. cities starting late this year and continuing into 2019. This article at NPR has the story, the cities and the dates. (Image credit: Smithsonian.)
Check It Out: Apollo 11 Space Capsule Goes on a New Mission
It’s set. I will be in Seattle in 2019. Don’t care if I have to sell the cat and hitchhike. I’m gonna be there. If all goes well that should be about the time SpaceX launches the two tourists to the moon. (They’re saying late 2018 but I expect slippage.