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Hi All,

I am thinking about creating a cart interpretation related to the 40th 
anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.  Basically, I want to give 
visitors an appreciation for how hard it was to get a man on the moon, 
especially given the available technology.  Unfortunately, I am one of 
those people who were born after the Apollo program ended, and don't 
have direct experience of this amazing accomplishment in human history.

One of my favorites scenes from the movie Apollo 13 is when the 
engineers have to calculate the return trajectory, and they all whip out 
slide rules!  It blows my mind to realize that we sent people 240,000 
miles away but didn't have the computing power to figure out sines and 
cosines!

One idea I have is to have examples of everyday items from 1969 and 
compare them to what's available today.  It should be fun to see the 
differences between telephones, cameras and portable music players. 

I would love to hear others' input on what might work as a cart 
interpretation and what other interpretations/activities people are 
doing around this anniversary.

Thanks in advance!

Nina

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Nina Nolan
Coordinator of Exhibit Hall Interpretation
Museum of Science
Science Park
Boston MA 02114-1099
(617) 589-0356 (ph)
(617) 589-0389 (fax)

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