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North Carolina's Role in Space

Record #:
16055
Abstract:
The state was actively involved with sending the first astronauts to the moon. Astronauts were trained in understanding the celestial environment at the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill under the guidance of director A. F. Jenzano. Two of those astronauts were also native North Carolinians; Major Charles Moss Duke, Jr. and Dr. William Edgar Thornton.
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