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"Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
Opened in 1961 in Houston, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Space Center is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's primary field site for manned space flight and home of mission control.


Backup

Donor: Gordon Wilkison
This footage from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) details the practice of planning redundant systems in spacecraft design to guard against equipment failure.

News Review of 1966

Newsreel footage reviews significant current events from 1966.

NASA Space Monkey Training

Donor: Gordon Wilkison
This news footage likely shot for a local network television affiliate demonstrates the training of rhesus monkeys for space flight.

The Texas Experience - Sally Ride Presents the Urbanization of Texas

Donor: Jim Ruddy
Astronaut Sally Ride discusses World War II industrialization and the resulting post-war urbanization of Texas.

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