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Relive Apollo Era’s Technologies And People Through UAH Archives

| July 20, 2019 @ 5:00 am

By Jim Steele
The University of Alabama in Huntsville

Maybe you’re inspired by the July 20 anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. Or maybe you want to build your own rocket ship, yet avoid beginner’s mistakes.

Whatever the inspiration, you can literally relive the development of technologies that made the Apollo moon landing and first walk on the moon possible at the M. Louis Salmon Library at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH).

Extensive collections of NASA materials produced during the development of the Saturn V rocket and materials from the Apollo-era space programs reside in the archives on the ground floor of the library and are available to the general public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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