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| Apollo in the Archives: Selections from the Neil Armstrong Papers Exhibit |
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Event Description:
Exhibit of selected documents and artifacts from the Neil Armstrong papers
July 20, 2019, marks the 50th anniversary of the first manned spaceflight that
landed on the moon.
To commemorate Purdue alumnus Neil A. Armstrong's and humanity's first step on the lunar surface, the Purdue Archives and Special Collections presents "Apollo in the Archives: Selections from the Neil Armstrong Papers." The exhibit opens Monday, March 18 and runs through Friday, August 16, 2019 and is free and open to the public. Contact Purdue Archives and Special Collections for hours at (765) 494-2839.
Armstrong's papers are a collection in the Barron Hilton Flight and Space Exploration Archives in the Purdue Archives and Special Collections, a division of Purdue University Libraries. (See http://earchives.lib.purdue.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/pualumni/id/36/rec/13 for the photograph of Armstrong featured in the e-Archives.)
More information about the Purdue Archives and Special Collections is available at www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol.
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Purdue Archives and Special Collections Location:
Humanities, Social Science, and Education (HSSE) Library, 4th floor
504 W. State Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907
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Contact Information:
Name: Tracy Grimm, Associate Head of Archives and Special Collections and Barron Hilton Archivist for Flight and Space Exploration
Phone: (765) 494-2839
Email: grimm3@purdue.edu |
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